B. L. Suhl v. United States

B. L. Suhl and Margaret Wierman were each convicted on all counts of a six-count indictment and they appeal. We affirm.

Named as co-defendants were Ronald Vaughn and Richard Gibson. Counts one through four charge violations of 18 U. S.C. § 1341, mail fraud; count six charges a conspiracy to violate the same section; count five charges violation of 18 U.S.C. § 656 , misapplication of bank funds. The first four counts all charge a “ ‘check kite’ scheme, whereby false credit would be obtained by exchange and passing of worthless checks between two banks.” Count one states that the scheme was that checks were drawn on the account of Suhl at a Los Angeles branch of the Bank of America and deposited in the account of Vaughn at the Frontier Bank of Covelo, in Mendocino County, California, when Suhl’s account did not contain sufficient funds to cover them, and that checks were drawn on Vaughn’s account at Covelo and deposited in Suhl’s account at Los Angeles when Vaughn’s account did not contain sufficient funds to cover them. It then alleges that these two defendants “utilized the span of time involved in the normal passage of mails between Covelo and Los Angeles * * * to accomplish…