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JOHNSON v. UNITED STATES

No. 7183.

82 F.2d 500 (1936)

JOHNSON et al. v. UNITED STATES.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

March 9, 1936.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Wallace Muir, of Lexington, Ky. (Arthur Bryson, of Ashland, Ky., Francis E. Burke, of Frankfort, Ky., and William W. Meeks and Gayle A. Mohney, both of Lexington, Ky., on the brief), for appellants.

Mac Swinford, of Lexington, Ky., for the United States.

Before HICKS, SIMONS, and ALLEN, Circuit Judges.

HICKS, Circuit Judge.

Two indictments were returned against the three appellants, Pharoah W. Johnson, William Dow Johnson, and Orville E. Setters. The first, No. 5828, charged them and Beatrice Staton (not indicted) with having devised a scheme to defraud the United States by interfering with it in awarding a contract for the construction of a post office at Portsmouth, Ohio; also to defraud the Roche, Connell & Laub Construction Company, and to use the mails...

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