John C. Ward v. United States

Appellant Ward, a Kansas farmer, was charged in a 3-count information with failure to file federal income tax returns for the years 1957, 1959, and 1961 during which he allegedly had a gross income ranging from over $14,000 to over $26,-000. Throughout the proceedings in the trial court and in this court he has insisted on representing himself and has rejected all suggestions that he employ an attorney. At the trial he admitted that he did not file the returns and that his gross income for each of the years in question exceeded $600. Appellant was under the age of 65 and by the terms of 26…