Hansen v. United States

RUDKIN, Circuit Judge.

The indictment in this case charged a conspiracy to defraud the United States of the sum of approximately $29,000 by omitting approximately $39,000 from the income tax return for the year 1918. Upon the trial there was no denial of the fact that the government had been thus defrauded, so that the principal issues left in the case were: Was there a conspiracy to that end; and, if so, who were the parties to that conspiracy? The defendants Hansen and Forrester were found guilty, and the former has sued out the present writ of error.

The argument for reversal is based…