Demetree v. United States

HUTCHESON, Chief Judge.

Tried upon an indictment in two counts charging him with willfully attempting to defeat and evade income taxes for the calendar years 1945 and 1946, appellant was acquitted on count two and convicted on count one. Appealing from the judgment and sentence on that count, he is here insisting that the trial and conviction were attended with prejudicial errors requiring a reversal of the judgment.

While the specific errors claimed are many in number, they fall roughly into six groups. 1

This is another of the growing list of criminal cases in which the government, having no…