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MORRIS v. UNITED STATES

No. 6854.

7 F.2d 785 (1925)

MORRIS v. UNITED STATES.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied October 20, 1925.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frank J. Looney, of Shreveport, La., and H. S. Powell, of El Dorado, Ark. (Powell, Smead & Knox, of El Dorado, Ark., and Foster, Looney, Wilkinson & Smith, of Shreveport, La., of counsel), for plaintiff in error.

James D. Shaver, Sp. Asst. U. S. Atty., of Texarkana, Ark. (S. S. Langley, U. S. Atty., of Ft. Smith, Ark., and H. L. Arterberry and Sylvester R. Rush, Sp. Asst. Attys. Gen., on the brief), for the United States.

Before KENYON and BOOTH, Circuit Judges, and AMIDON, District Judge.

KENYON, Circuit Judge.

Plaintiff in error (designated herein as defendant) together with a number of other persons, was indicted on December 12, 1923, in the District Court of the United States for the Western District of Arkansas. All were charged in eighteen counts of the indictment with a violation of section 215 of the Criminal Code (Comp. St. § 10385), by having devised a scheme to obtain money and property by false pretenses, and in carrying it out to have...

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