Benjamin W. Corey v. United States

This is a motion by the United States to dismiss, as untimely, defendant-appellant’s appeal from a judgment of conviction entered by the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts.

Defendant was convicted as charged in the indictment of seventy-five offenses of making and presenting for payment to a department of the United States— the Department of the Army — false, fictitious and fraudulent claims in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 287. The maximum penalty for each offense is five years imprisonment or a fine of $10,000 or both.

On April 9, 1962, the district court entered a…