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SALINGER v. UNITED STATES

No. 238.

272 U.S. 542 (1926)

47 S.Ct. 173

71 L.Ed. 398

SALINGER v. UNITED STATES.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided November 23, 1926.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Messrs. B.I. Salinger and Arthur F. Mullen, with whom Mr. Robert Healy was on the brief, for the plaintiff in error.

Mr. Alfred A. Wheat, Special Assistant to the Attorney General, with whom Solicitor General Mitchell and Mr. Randolph S. Collins, Attorney in the Department of Justice, were on the brief, for the United States.

MR. JUSTICE VAN DEVANTER delivered the opinion of the Court.

By this direct writ of error we are asked to review a judgment of conviction in the federal district court for South Dakota for a violation of § 215 of the Criminal Code which makes it a criminal offense to use the mail for the purpose of executing a scheme to defraud. The writ was sued out on the assumption that the case is one involving the construction and application of certain provisions of the...

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