United States v. Lyndon A. Durant

SCHNACKENBERG, Circuit Judge.

Lyndon A. Durant, defendant, having been indicted under 26 U.S.C.A. § 7201 and charged in three counts with willfully attempting to defeat and evade a part of income tax due and owing by him and his wife to the United States of America, for the calendar years 1954, 1955, 1956, the deficiency totaling $142,-714.40, pleaded not guilty and was tried by the court without a jury.

The court having denied defendant’s motions for judgment of acquittal at the close of the government’s case and at the close of all the evidence, defendant was found guilty on each count and…