 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, or promises...  Supreme Court Reporter - Page 242by United States. Supreme Court - 1896Full view - About this book
 | Michigan. Supreme Court, Randolph Manning, George C. Gibbs, Thomas McIntyre Cooley, Elijah W. Meddaugh, William Jennison, Hovey K. Clarke, Hoyt Post, Henry Allen Chaney, William Dudley Fuller, John Adams Brooks, Marquis B. Eaton, Herschel Bouton Lazell, James M. Reasoner, Richard W. Cooper - 1892 - 742 pages
...things, etc. The criminal complaint was made under section 5480, Rev. Stat. US, which is as folows: "If any person, having devised or. intending to devise any scheme or artifice to defraud, or be effected by either opening or intending to open correspondence or communication with any other person,... | |
 | 1896 - 866 pages
...SCHEME TO DEFRAUD. — Revised Statutes, section 5480, as amended by act March 2, 1889, provides that if any person, having devised or intending to devise any scheme or artifice, to defraud by correspondence through the mails, shall, in executing such scheme, place any letter or circular... | |
 | United States - 1879 - 476 pages
...5479; see, also, ES, § 5418.) Sec. 1246. Sending Letters Through the Mails with Intent to Defraud If any person having devised or intending to devise any scheme or artifice to defraud, or be effected by either opening or intending to open correspondence or communication with any other person,... | |
 | 1896 - 2118 pages
...that the statute defines the cases to which it is applicable. The cases mentioned in the statute are: "To sell, dispose of, loan, exchange, alter, give...for unlawful use any counterfeit or spurious coin," etc., and "to obtain money by or through correspondence, by what is commonly called the 'sawdust swindle,'... | |
 | 1902 - 1128 pages
...provisions which are not necessary to the disposition of the pending case, this section reads as follows : "If any person having devised or intending to devise any scheme or artifice to defraud to be effected by either opening or intending to open correspondence or communication with any person,... | |
 | 1903 - 1108 pages
...tickets for them." The language of the statute, so far as it is material in this case, is as follows : "If any person having devised or intending to devise any scheme or artifice to defraud * * * to be effected by either opening or intending to open correspondence or communication with any... | |
 | 1904 - 1108 pages
...by Act March 2. 1889, c. 393, 25 Stat. S73 [US Comp. St. 1!K)1. p. 3090 J, which rends as follows : "If any person having devised or Intending to devise any scheme or artifice to defraud • • * to be effected by either opening or intending to open correspondence or communication with... | |
 | 1906 - 1052 pages
...[US Comp. St 1901, p. 3696]). This section, as far as applicable to this case, reads as follows : "1f any person having devised or intending to devise any scheme or artifice to defraud » * » to be effected by either opening or intending to open correspondence or communication with... | |
 | 1917 - 2042 pages
...(Act March 4, 1909, c. 321) § 215, 35 Stat 1130 (Comp. St. 1!)16, § 10385), declaring thnt whoever, having devised or intending to devise any scheme or artifice to defraud, shall for the purpose of executing such scheme use the mails, will be punished, is different from the... | |
 | United States. Circuit Court (2nd Circuit) - 1882 - 642 pages
...in the District Court, under § 5,480 of the Revised Statutes. That section provides as follows : " If any person, having devised or intending to devise any scheme or artifice to defraud, or be effected by either opening, or intending to open, correspondence or communication with any other... | |
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