Wattenmaker v. United States

RELLSTAB, District Judge.

In June, 1928, Nathan Wattenmaker was found guilty on the first count of an indictment, which charged him with having sworn falsely before a ’referee in bankruptcy with regard to the employment of certain persons on the books of the Triangle Shoe Market, a bankrupt corporation.

A reversal is sought upon the following grounds: (1) That the alleged false swearing was as to an immaterial fact; (2) that the record before the referee, on the testimony of the stenographer who took the stenographic notes of WattenmakePs testimony, was admitted without the production of the…