United States v. Donald v. Anderson

FLOYD R. GIBSON, Senior Circuit Judge.

Donald Anderson was convicted pursuant to a jury trial in the United States District Court for the District of South Dakota 1 on all counts of a forty-four-count indictment. The indictment charged Anderson with mail fraud, forgery, and uttering in violation of 18 U.S.C. §§ 495, 1341-42 (1976) by engaging in a scheme to defraud the Government through filing thirty false income tax returns in different names in order to obtain tax refunds. On appeal, Anderson contends that the Government failed to prove a fact alleged in seven counts of the indictment, and…