Legal Opinion

Newingham v. United States

Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit

Decided February 27, 1925No. 3279PublishedCited by 28 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

WOOLLEY, Circuit Judge.

The plaintiffs in error, defendants below, were tried and convicted on an indictment containing 14 counts, of which 13 were for offenses violative of section 215 of tho Criminal Code (Comp. St. § 10385). This section provides: “Whoever, having devised * * * any scheme or artifice to defraud, or for obtaining money or property by means of false or fraudulent pretences * * shall, for the purpose of executing such scheme or artifice * * * place, or cause to he placed, any letter * * * in any post office * * * the United States, * * * ” shall be guilty of a crime.

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2Cases cited9 opinions

  1. Preeman v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1917
  2. Savage v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1920
  3. A. Guckenheimer & Bros. Co. v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1925
  4. Stewart v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1902
  5. Belden v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1915

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3Cited by28 opinions

  1. Weiss v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1941
  2. Victor Harry Feguer v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1962
  3. Friedman v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1965
  4. Bogy v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1938
  5. Mitchell v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 1942

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