Tyree v. United States

QUINN, Associate Judge.

Appellant, an employer, was convicted by a jury of failing to secure the payment of compensation, as required under the District of Columbia Workmen’s Compensation Act. 1 His principal contention on appeal is that the court erred in admitting in evidence two payroll books that had been “obtained and seized illegally from persons other than defendant without due process of law.”

The record indicates that the books, voluntarily turned over to the government by appellant’s former employees, were used as one link in the chain of evidence to prove that appellant was an…