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UNITED STATES v. WIMBERLY

Cr. No. 9380.

34 F.Supp. 904 (1940)

UNITED STATES v. WIMBERLY et al.

District Court, W. D. Louisiana, Shreveport Division.

February 22, 1940.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Harvey G. Fields, U. S. Atty., and Malcolm E. Lafargue, Asst. U. S. Atty., both of Shreveport, La., and O. John Rogge and Harold Rosenwald, Assts. to the Atty. Gen., for plaintiff.

B. F. Roberts, of Shreveport, La., Murray Hudson, of Monroe, La., Robert H. Wimberly, of Arcadia, La., Harry V. Booth, of Shreveport, La., and Wm. F. M. Meadors, of Homer, La., for defendants.

DAWKINS, District Judge.

Defendants were charged in an indictment of six counts with using the mails in furtherance of a scheme to defraud. In a demurrer they have attacked it for repugnancy and for the further reason that, as they contend, on its face, the bill shows no fraud to have been committed.

Some twelve typewritten pages were used in describing the scheme. Partly summarized, it was as follows: That defendants did, on or about the first of July, 1937...

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