Legal Opinion

Jones v. United States

Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit

Decided December 4, 1947No. 11980PublishedCited by 10 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

HUTCHESON, Circuit Judge.

Convicted on four counts of an indictment charging him with wilfully attempting to defeat and evade, in violation of 26 U.S.C.A.Int. Rev. Code, § 145(b), income taxes for the years 1942 and 1943,1 defendant has appealed. Earnestly insisting that, upon the undisputed evidence,2 no case was made out against him and a verdict should have been instructed in his favor, he is here urging that the judgment should be reversed and the cause dismissed. In the *400alternative, he as earnestly insists that if the evidence did make out a case for the jury, the trial was unfair and not…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Spies v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1943

3Cited by10 opinions

  1. E. C. Lloyd v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1955
  2. Gaunt v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the First Circuit · 1951
  3. Wardlaw v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1953
  4. Sydney Ginsberg v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1958
  5. Harry H. Blumberg v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1955

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