Kolbrenner v. United States

FOSTER, Circuit Judge.

Plaintiffs in error, Art Kolbrenner, Jack Kolbrenner, and Menard Kolbrenner, hereafter called defendants, were the sole stockholders and officers of Kolbrenner Bros., Inc., which corporation was engaged in the retail shoe business, with stores at Cisco, Eastland, and Abilene, Tex.~ On December 6,1921, a voluntary petition in bankruptcy was filed by the corporation, it was adjudicated bankrupt, and in due course a trustee was appointed. An indictment was returned on October 9, 1924, charging defendants with conspiring together, and with the bankrupt, to conceal certain…