Ben B. Conford v. United States

HILL, Circuit Judge.

Appellant was tried before a jury and convicted on two counts, each charging him with willfully subscribing to and filing a false income tax return. 1 The two counts covered the tax years of 1956 and 1957. The appeal is from that judgment of conviction entered pursuant to the jury verdict.

The two counts of the indictment alleged in substance: That taxpayer omitted from his 1956 return income received from the sale of Mayday Uranium Company stock and Sundown Petroleum Company stock; that he omitted from his 1957 return income received from the sale of Sundown Petroleum…