United States v. Crummer

BRATTON, Circuit Judge.

Roy E. Crummer, nine other individuals, and two corporations were indicted in the United States court for Kansas under Section 215 of the Criminal Code, 18 U.S.C.A. § 338, which in presently material part provides :

“Whoever, having devised or intending to devise any scheme or artifice to defraud, or for obtaining money or property by means of false or fraudulent pretenses, representations, or promises, * * * shall, for the purpose of executing such scheme or artifice or attempting so to do, place, or cause to be placed, any letter, * * * writing, * * * in any post…