Paul J. Richard v. United States

ALDRICH, Circuit Judge.

The defendant was convicted by a jury of falsifying his income tax returns. Apart from one matter not pressed at the argument his complaints on this appeal are to the admission of a stenographic transcript of what might be loosely termed a deposition, voluntarily given by him to the Internal Revenue Service, described by counsel as bob-tailed, and to the denial of motions for a mistrial and for a new trial because of the publication, during trial, of certain newspaper articles.

The case was tried upon the net worth theory. The defendant makes no claim that the evidence…