UNITED STATES v. STREET

No. 75-1629 to 75-1631.

529 F.2d 226 (1976)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Thomas Norwood STREET, Jr., Defendant-Appellant. UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Gordon Byron FERGUSON, Defendant-Appellant. UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Louis Hobson DICKINSON, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

Decided February 10, 1976.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James S. Cox, Krivcher & Cox, Memphis, Tenn., for Thomas Norwood Street, Jr.

Thomas F. Turley, Jr., U. S. Atty., W. Hickman Ewing, Jr., Asst. U. S. Atty., Memphis, Tenn., for the United States.

Alvin M. Binder, Jackson, Miss., for Gordon Byron Ferguson.

Edward G. Grogan, Heiskell, Donelson, Adams, Williams & Wall, Memphis, Tenn., for Louis Hobson Dickinson.

Before PHILLIPS, Chief Judge, and MILLER and LIVELY, Circuit Judges.


PHILLIPS, Chief Judge.

This appeal presents the question of whether a "check kiting" scheme as perpetrated by defendants-appellants violates the federal mail fraud statute, 18 U.S.C. § 1341.1

Ferguson, Dickinson and Street were found guilty by the jury on five counts of mail fraud and sentenced by District Judge Robert McRae, Jr., to imprisonment of one year and one day on each count, to run concurrently. We affirm.

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