Cohen v. United States

WOOLLEY, Circuit Judge.

Cohen was a bankrupt. The indictment under which he was tried and convicted contained six counts. Three charged him with perjury in that he testified falsely in a proceeding before a referee; the fourth with making a false oath to his schedules; the fifth with concealing books; and the sixth with having withheld books from the receiver. On this appeal Cohen raises three questions. The first two do not grow out of the court’s rulings or instructions on controverted issues of. fact, for when on the stand Cohen’s testimony was carefully limited by the direct examination to…