B. L. Suhl Et Al. v. United States America

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 Suhls account did not contain sufficient funds to cover them, and that checks were drawn on Vaughns account at Covelo and deposited in Suhls account at Los Angeles when Vaughns 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 delay in the posting of checks to the * * * respective accounts." Finally, it charges that Suhl, on November 13, 1963, deposited in his Los Angeles account a check drawn by Vaughn on his Covelo account in the sum of $55,000, and caused the Los Angeles bank to send it by mail to Covelo at a time when Vaughns Covelo account contained less than $600. Wierman and Vaughn are charged with aiding and abetting Suhl. Count two is identical except that its specific charge is that Wierman, on November 18, 1963, deposited to Vaughns Covelo account a Suhl check drawn on his Los Angeles account in the sum of $55,000, when Suhls balance was less than $200. Suhl and Vaughn are charged as aiders and abettors of Wierman.