UNITED STATES v. PIKE

No. 9004.

158 F.2d 46 (1946)

UNITED STATES v. PIKE et al.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

As Corrected on Denial of Rehearing December 6, 1946.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles W. Hadley, of Wheaton, Ill., and John A. Nash and Arthur H. Schwab, both of Chicago, Ill., for appellants.

J. Albert Woll, U.S. Atty., and Bernard H. Sokol and Jack Arnold Welfeld, Asst. U.S. Dist. Attys., all of Chicago, Ill., for appellee.

Before SPARKS and KERNER, Circuit Judges, and BRIGGLE, District Judge.


BRIGGLE, District Judge.

This is an appeal from a judgment of the District Court after a jury found the defendants, Silas Elbert Pike and Ernest C. Pike, guilty of using the United States mails in a scheme to defraud in violation of Section 338, Title 18 United States Code Annotated, Sec. 215, Cr.Code. The trial court imposed a sentence of five years imprisonment and a fine of $1,000 on each of seven counts, sentences of imprisonment to run concurrently.

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