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• Title: Rosenberg v. United States
• Author : United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
• Release Date : January 29, 1941
• Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
• Pages : * pages
• Size : 56 KB

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The defendants below, Joel E. Rosenberg and William C. Uphoff, were convicted of using the mails in furtherance of a scheme to defraud, in violation of section 215 of the Criminal Code, 18 U.S.C.A. § 338. The indictment charged that Uphoff sold to C. W. Harber a one-half interest in an oil and gas lease covering 120 acres of land in New Mexico for $60; that thereafter Rosenberg pretended to offer Harber $7.50 per acre and later $25 per acre for his interest in the lease; that both defendants represented to Harber that more money could be had by drilling a well on a 2,000 acre tract which would include the acreage owned by Uphoff and Harber, and suggested that the two advance jointly the sum of $1,800 as their share of the drilling fund; that drilling would start in the near future, and if results were satisfactory they would sell part of their acreage for $100 per acre; and that Harber would be paid interest on the money which he advanced. It was further charged that all of such pretenses, represenstations, and promises were false and fraudulent, and that for the purpose of executing such scheme the defendants caused to be delivered through the post office at Santa Fe, New Mexico, the following letter which had been deposited in the post office at Moline, Illinois:

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