Anthony Fernandez, A/K/A Tony Fernandez, Burl Elton Dalgliesh and Carl G. Pratt v. United States

Anthony Fernandez, Burl Elton Dal-gliesh and Carl G. Pratt appeal from their convictions under various counts of two indictments charging interstate frauds ‘in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2314 (1958), and conspiracy in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 371 (1958).

Interstate frauds were charged in counts 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7 of indictment No. 16845, and in count 1 of indictment No. 16870, all of these being substantive counts. Conspiracy was charged in count 2 of indictment No. 16870. Fernandez was charged and convicted on all of these counts. Dalgliesh was charged on counts 5 and 6 of indictment No. 16845, and count 2 of the other indictment. He was acquitted on count 5 and convicted on the other two. Pratt was charged and convicted on count 7 of the first indictment and counts 1 and 2 of the second.

The allegations of the indictments and the evidence tending to support the convictions pertain to a series of timber and banking deals extending from February, 1958 to August, 1962. In the course of these transactions a number of businessmen, companies and banks were defrauded of large sums of money, ranging from five thousand to forty thousand dollars. The methods employed in perpetrating…