Rick v. United States

PRETTYMAN, Associate Justice.

An information was brought in the Municipal Court against appellants for will*898fully, knowingly and unlawfully attempting to defeat and evade a District of Columbia income tax by filing false and fraudulent returns for the years 1942, 1943 and 1944. The information was brought by the United States Attorney. A motion to quash the information was filed, on the ground that the power to prosecute was not in the United States Attorney but was vested in the office of the Corporation Counsel for the District of Columbia. The trial judge granted the motion. The Municipal…