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MORRIS v. UNITED STATES

No. 9092.

112 F.2d 522 (1940)

MORRIS et al. v. UNITED STATES.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied July 8, 1940.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frank J. Looney, of Shreveport, La., Robert E. Cofer and John D. Cofer, both of Austin, Tex., and Maury Hughes, of Dallas, Tex., for appellants.

Harvey G. Fields, U. S. Atty., and Malcolm E. Lafargue, Asst. U. S. Atty., both of Shreveport, La., for appellee.

Before HOLMES and McCORD, Circuit Judges, and MIZE, District Judge.

MIZE, District Judge.

The appellants, T. L. Morris, L. Hugh Morris, M. N. Morris, Z. B. Freeman, and J. L. F. Beasley, were indicted along with others in the Western District of Louisiana by an indictment containing eleven counts charging them with using the mails to defraud. The defendants filed a demurrer to this indictment challenging its sufficiency and their chief grounds were that the indictment was duplicitous in that it attempted to charge two schemes to defraud...

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