Leonard L. Bursten v. United States

BEN C. DAWKINS, Jr., District Judge:

This appeal is from a conviction for willful income tax evasion. 26 U.S.C. § 7201.1 For the reasons hereinafter indicated, we reverse and remand for a new trial.

Appellant, Bursten, a non-Florida lawyer, but who engaged, in legal and financial activities there, and was ap*978parently quite a “wheeler-and-dealer,” was indicted for evading federal income taxes for 1957. Specifically, the indictment charged him with reporting he had no taxable income in 1957, when in fact he knew that his income for that year was $152,767.14. Income tax which would have been due on…