Lyman

The plaintiff in error was convicted under the first of six counts of an indictment charging him with using the mails of the United States in the execution of a scheme devised to defraud various persons of their property and money, and, having been sentenced to imprisonment by the judgment of the court below, has brought the case here by writ of error.

The count of the indictment under which conviction was had alleged, in substance, that on the 1st day of May, 1911, and at all other times mentioned in the indictment, the Panama Development Company was a corporation organized under the laws of Arizona, and was at all times under the complete control of the defendant; that on or about May 1, 1911, the defendant, at the city of Los Angeles, intended to devise and had devised a scheme to defraud various persons, to *946 the grand jurors unknown, out of their money and property, by inducing them through false and fraudulent representations to pay and transfer to the said' corporation their money and property, in the belief that they were paying and transferring it to the corporation as agent for the republic of Panama in the purchase of lands belonging to that government, the…