Hill v. United States Ex Rel. Wampler

delivered the opinion of the Court.-

By an indictment in two counts the relator Wampler was charged with an attempt to evade and defeat the payment of his income tax under the laws of the United States through the filing in the years 1930 and 1931 of false and fraudulent returns. He was convicted in the United States District Court for the District of Maryland. On December 28, 1933, the judgment of the court was pronounced as follows: “Fine five thousand dollars and eighteen months in penitentiary on each count of the indictment, said, terms of imprisonment to be computed as beginning this…