Sharfsin v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
In Error to the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of South Carolina, at Charleston; Heniy A. Middleton Smith, Judge. Criminal prosecution by the United States against M. Sharfsin.. Judgment of conviction, and defendant brings error.
1Opinion of the Court
WOODS, Circuit Judge.
On April 29, 1918, the defendant, M. Sharfsin, was adjudicated an involuntary bankrupt. On June 3, 1919, he was convicted on an indictment containing one count, charging that he knowingly and fraudulently concealed from Clayton S. Warner, his trustee, $1,500, a part of his bankrupt estate. A motion for a new trial on after-discovered evidence was refused.
Error is assigned in the refusal of the District Court to direct a verdict on the ground that the testimony failed to sustain the charge. There is no dispute as to the material facts. The petition in involuntary…
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