Peisner v. State

The defendant-appellant, Arthur A. Peisner, was indicted on six counts charging him with conspiracy, along with Robert H. Symonds, David Eerner and Morton Lifshutz, to defraud the depositors of the Mutual Security Savings and Eoan Association, hereafter called Mutual, (three counts) and to defraud said Mutual (three counts). A jury found him guilty on all counts, and he was sentenced to nine years’ imprisonment on each count, the sentences to run concurrently. From the judgment and sentences Peisner appeals.

The appellant, both an accountant and a member of the District of Columbia Bar, but…