Merrill v. United States

HOLMES, District Judge.

The appellants were convicted under section 37 of the Penal Code (18 USCA § 88) of conspiracy to violate subsection b (1) *316of section 29 of the Bankruptcy Act (11 USCA § 52(b) (1), in this, that they unlawfully and feloniously agreed and conspired to conceal from the receiver and trustee in bankruptcy certain assets belonging to the estate of R. M. Merrill, one of the conspirators. Numerous overt acts were alleged and proven, the most important being that on May 8, 1926, Wineman introduced Merrill at the Canal Bank & Trust Company, in New Orleans, under the name of C. A.…