United States v. Mann

OPINION

FRANKEL, District Judge.

On March 13,1959, the defendant, then 67 years old, was charged in a five-count indictment with willful attempts to evade taxes owed by himself and his wife on their income for each of the calendar years 1952 through 1956. The first steps following the indictment were accomplished with “admirable promptness,” Klopfer v. State of North Carolina, 386 U.S. 213, 217, 87 S.Ct. 988, 18 L.Ed.2d 1 (1967); within two months defendant had entered a plea of not guilty, moved for a bill of particulars, and received the particulars ordered by the court in its partial…