United States v. Gordon

CHASE, Circuit Judge.

The appellant was convicted on each of five counts in an indictment tried to a jury in the District Court for the Southern District of New York alleging that he had used the United States mails in furtherance of a scheme to defraud by mailing to an addressee named in each count false representations as to the financial condition of a corporation he controlled called From Broadway, Inc. The mailings were all adequately proved.

There was no substantial dispute as to the following facts shown in evidence: The appellant was a salesman who had sold many shoes to C. H. Baker,…