KNIGHT v. UNITED STATES

No. 10000.

123 F.2d 959 (1941)

KNIGHT v. UNITED STATES.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied January 12, 1942.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

No appearance was entered for appellant.

Clyde O. Eastus, U. S. Atty., of Fort Worth, Tex., and Wm. P. Fonville, Asst. U. S. Atty., of Dallas, Tex., for appellee.

Before HUTCHESON, HOLMES, and McCORD, Circuit Judges.


McCORD, Circuit Judge.

Winter Knight was tried and convicted on five counts of an indictment charging violations of the mail fraud statute, 18 U.S.C.A. § 338, and was sentenced generally to serve a term of eighteen months imprisonment and pay a fine of one thousand dollars. From the judgment and sentence entered he has appealed.

Knight is here contending that the court below erred in overruling his motion for a peremptory instruction of not guilty; in...

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