Hallowell v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
In Error to the District Court of the United States for the District of Oregon; Robert S. Bean, Judge. Criminal prosecution by the United States against W. F. Hallowell and W. F. Dick. Judgment of conviction, and defendants bring error. The plaintiffs in error were convicted under a charge of conspiracy to use the mails in furtherance of: a scheme to defraud.
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In Error to the District Court of the United States for the District of Oregon; Robert S. Bean, Judge. Criminal prosecution by the United States against W. F. Hallowell and W. F. Dick. Judgment of conviction, and defendants bring error. The plaintiffs in error were convicted under a charge of conspiracy to use the mails in furtherance of: a scheme to defraud. The scheme involved a pretended location of claimants upon lands in Oregon represented to be included in what was known as the Oregon & California Railroad land grant, and which were then in litigation in a suit brought by the United…
1Opinion of the CourtGilbert, Circuit Judge
(after stating the facts as above). [1] The plaintiffs in error contend that, inasmuch as the indictment charges that it was the purpose of the scheme to induce each of the victims thereof to pay to the defendants named in the indictment the sum of $150 for their services in receiving and presenting tó the railroad company the applications to purchase lands, it was error to admit the letters written to certain of the applicants demanding the further sum of $2.50 per acre; the purpose to demand said further sum not having been specified in the indictment, and proof of demand therefor being…
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