William v. Massei v. United States

HARTIGAN, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from a judgment entered in the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts upon the verdict of a jury finding the appellant guilty on each of five counts of an indictment charging him with willfully and knowingly attempting to defeat and evade a large part of the income tax due and owing by him and his wife to the United States for the calendar years 1946,1947, 1948, 1949 and 1950, in violation of § 145 (b) of the Internal Revenue Code, 26 U.S.C. § 145(b).1 The appellant was sentenced to concurrent terms of imprisonment of two years…