Goetz v. United States

SPARKS, Circuit Judge.

Appellant was charged by indictment of three counts with violating the Bankruptcy Act, § 29b (3, 2, 8), 30 Stat. 554, as amended by Act May 27, 1926, § 11, 44 Stat. 065 (31 USCA § 52(b) (1, 2, 8). The first count charged concealment of property from the trustee in bankruptcy; the second charged the making of a false oath in relation to the bankruptcy proceeding; and the third charged withholding from the trastee certain books, documents, and papers belonging to the bankrupt estate. He was convicted by a jury and sentenced to imprisonment on each count, tho sentences to…