United States v. Harry J. Rybicki

O’SULLIVAN, Circuit Judge.

Harry J. Rybicki appeals from judgment entered on a jury verdict, convicting him of violating § 7212(a) of Title 26, U.S.C. The information charged that on February 13, 1967, Rybicki, by threats of force, obstructed two officers of the Internal Revenue Service who were then engaged in the performance of their duties, seeking to collect from him income tax owed by him to the United States. His grounds of appeal are that the government’s evidence was not sufficient to sustain the verdict, and that the District Judge erroneously failed to adequately instruct the jury as…