Stanley Chester Bolen, Delores Bolen and Aqua Trailers, Inc., a Washington Corporation v. United States

Appellants were convicted on three counts of an indictment charging the use of mails to defraud in violation of Title 18 U.S.C. § 1341 , and acquitted on a fourth count charging conspiracy in violation of Title 18 U.S.C. § 371 .

In each of the first three counts it was charged in substance that prior to April 16, 1959, and continuing to the date of the indictment (June 23, 1960) the defendants devised a scheme and artifice to obtain money and property from purchasers of merchandise, including folding plastic boats, from Aqua Trailers, Inc., one of the appellants, by means of false and fraudulent pretenses, representations and promises, in that the defendants represented to purchasers that shipments of merchandise would be made upon the payment of a specified down payment and the balance be collected after shipment by sight drafts drawn upon a purchaser through banks designated by the purchasers; that defendants represented to employees of the Spokane and Eastern Branch of the Seattle-First National Bank that defendants were making shipments of merchandise and desired to collect therefor through banks designated by the purchasers by sight drafts drawn on the purchasers, with…