Legal Opinion
Worthington v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided February 14, 1933No. 4720PublishedCited by 38 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
EVANS, Circuit Judge.
Many errors are assigned by appellant, which we will consider under separate headings.
The Indictment.
The sufficiency of the indictment is assailed because (a) none of the first five counts sets forth a scheme to defraud with sufficient clarity to inform appellant of the charges which he is to meet; (b) each eonnt eoniains representations so different from the other that it can not be said that said representations were made pursuant to the same scheme to defraud, and therefore each count of the indictment is bad for duplicity.
It is stated in the rather lengthy first count…
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