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WOOD v. UNITED STATES

Nos. 16343, 16344.

279 F.2d 359 (1960)

Merle Emery WOOD, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES of America, Appellee. Richard Beach GURNEY, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES of America, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Eighth Circuit.

June 27, 1960.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Don H. Jackson and James A. Pratt, Council Bluffs, Iowa, filed brief and made oral argument for appellants.

F. E. Van Alstine, U. S. Atty., Sioux City, Iowa, filed brief and made argument in behalf of appellee.

Before SANBORN, MATTHES and BLACKMUN, Circuit Judges.

SANBORN, Circuit Judge.

Merle Emery Wood and Richard Beach Gurney were two of nine defendants named in a twenty-three count indictment returned October 28, 1958, charging twenty-three separate violations of 18 U.S.C. § 1341, which makes it a crime to use the mails in execution of a scheme to defraud. Wood, Gurney, and one other defendant (Damm) stood trial. They were tried together, and each was found guilty by the jury, Wood upon twelve counts of the indictment...

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