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- Title: Adams v. United States
- Author : United States Court Of Appeals Fifth Circuit.
- Release Date : January 03, 1963
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 53 KB
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Appellant was convicted under a threecount indictment charging mail fraud, in violation of 18 U.S.C. ? 1341. The indictment alleged that Adams willfully and knowingly devised, and intended to devise, a scheme and artifice to defraud the Gulf Oil Company, one William Magie, and various Gulf distributors, who could be induced to extend credit upon Magies Gulf credit card, and to obtain money and property from them by means of false and fraudulent pretenses and representations, known to Adams to be false, and that he caused various sales slips to be sent and delivered by the Post Office Department to Gulf Oil Company in Houston, Texas. The evidence showed that Adams obtained gasoline and other products from various Gulf distributors by the use of a credit card issued by Gulf to Magie, without the permission or authorization of Magie. Using that credit card for several months, appellant made some two hundred purchases from Gulf distributors in several states, in the total amount of $2953.55. Magie testified that he was unaware that the credit card was missing until notified by mail of purchases with it.