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UNITED STATES v. HASSEL

No. 9527.

341 F.2d 427 (1965)

UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. Donald Lyle HASSEL, Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals Fourth Circuit.

Decided January 12, 1965.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Claude O. Lanciano, Philadelphia, Pa., and John P. Ellis, Arlington, Va., for appellant.

C. V. Spratley, Jr., U. S. Atty. (Plato Cacheris, First Asst. U. S. Atty. on brief), for appellee.

Before SOBELOFF, Chief Judge, BELL, Circuit Judge, and NORTHROP, District Judge.

NORTHROP, District Judge.

The question raised on this appeal is whether, under the second paragraph of Section 2314, Title 18, United States Code, a victim must be bilked out of $5,000 or more in order for federal jurisdiction to attach.

The pertinent paragraph reads as follows:

"Whoever, having devised or intending to devise any scheme or artifice to defraud, or for obtaining money or property by means of false or fraudulent pretenses, representations...

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