Stinnett v. United States

This is an appeal from a judgment of conviction, after a trial by jury, in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, under an' indictment charging the defendant Stinnett with willful attempts to evade individual federal income taxes for the calendar years 1942, 1943, 1944, in violation of Section 145(b) of the Internal Revenue Code of the United States, 26 U.S.C.A. § 145(b). Two questions are before us: (1) The sufficiency of the evidence to take the case to the jury ; and (2) Whether the court properly charged the jury.

Stinnett, during the tax-years in question,…