UNITED STATES v. FRANCIS

No. 9698.

172 F.2d 619 (1949)

UNITED STATES v. FRANCIS.

United States Court of Appeals Seventh Circuit.

Rehearing Denied March 11, 1949.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Paul A. Pfister and C. Titus Everett, both of Indianapolis, Ind., for appellant.

B. Howard Caughran, U. S. Atty., and Elba L. Branigin, Jr., and Maurice W. Graston, Asst. U. S. Attys., all of Indianapolis, Ind., for appellee.

Before MAJOR, Chief Judge, and BRIGGLE and DUFFY, District Judges.


BRIGGLE, District Judge.

Defendant (appellant) was convicted in the District Court by a jury on an indictment in six counts charging that defendant devised a scheme and artifice to defraud chiropractors, naturopaths and other members of the non-medical healing fraternity and to obtain money by means of certain false and fraudulent pretenses, representations and promises, well knowing at the time that the pretenses, representations and promises would be false when...

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