United States v. William M. Tadio

SWAN, Circuit Judge.

The defendant was convicted after trial to a jury of wilfully attempting to evade and defeat payment of his 1950 and 1951 income taxes, in violation of 26 U.S.C.A. § 145(b), and of wilfully filing a return for each of those years which he did not believe to be true and correct, in violation of 26 U.S.C.A. § 3809(a). He was sentenced to imprisonment for a year and a day on both counts of each indictment, the sentences to run concurrently, and was fined $2,000 on the first count of the tax evasion indictment. His appeal challenges the sufficiency of the indictments, the…