Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit October 10, 1973, 72-1730 (United States v. John Sherman Miles)

LAY, Circuit Judge.

Defendant, John Sherman Miles, was convicted of violating 18 U.S.C. § 1341.

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The government charged in the indictment that the defendant, along with Robert Totten and Gary Morris, participated in a fraudulent scheme to obtain cattle from a cattle sales barn in Fair Play, Missouri, with a no-account check and then to dispose of them “before the check . . .