Romney v. United States

WILBUR K. MILLER, Associate Justice.

This is an appeal by Kenneth Romney, formerly Sergeant at Arms of the House of Representatives of the United States, from a judgment of conviction entered against him in the District Court of the United States for the District of Columbia. A jury found him guilty of presenting to the General Accounting Office certain false statements of his accounts, and of concealing a shortage by trick, scheme, and device, in violation of Title 18, § 80, U.S. C.A.

The nature of the accounts and the falsification of them charged against the appellant can be readily…