Legal Opinion
Malvin v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided May 24, 1918No. 194PublishedCited by 2 opinions
In Error to the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York. Louis Malvin and others were convicted of conspiracy to violate the provisions of Bankruptcy Act July 1, 1898, relating to the concealment of assets by bankrupts, and they bring error.
1Opinion of the Court
ROGERS, Circuit Judge.
The defendants have been convicted of the crime of conspiring to violate the provisions of Bankruptcy Act July 1, 1898, c. 541, 30 Stat. 544, relating to the concealment of assets by bankrupts. The act (section 29b [Comp. St. 1916, § 9613]), provides that:
“A person shall be punished, by imprisonment for a period not to exceed two yearsi upon conviction of the offense of having knowingly and fraudulently concealed while a bankrupt,, or after his discharge, from his trustee any of the property- belonging to his estate in bankruptcy.”
And the United States Criminal Code (Act…
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