United States v. Trotter

ERVIN, District Judge.

The indictment charged the defendant with having concealed property from the trustee in bankruptcy, and the matter comes on to be heard on a motion by defendant to quash the first two counts of the indictment because the same show that they are barred by the statute of limitations of three years.

The indictment shows that Trotter was declared a bankrupt on January 24,1931. That the trustee in bankruptcy qualified as such on the 3d day of March, 1931, and it avers:

“That on, to wit, the 20th day of May, 1931, and continuously thereafter, the said Richard Townsend Trotter,…