CAMPODONICO v. UNITED STATES

No. 14089.

222 F.2d 310 (1955)

Michael CAMPODONICO, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES of America, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Ninth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied May 27, 1955.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Willens & Boscoe, Donald D. Boscoe, Stockton, Cal., Emmet J. Seawell, Sacramento, Cal., for appellant.

H. Brian Holland, Asst. Atty. Gen., Lloyd H. Burke, U. S. Atty., Clyde Maxwell, Jr., Atty., I.R.S., San Francisco, Cal., Thomas J. Sullivan, Atty., I.R.S., Los Angeles, Cal., for appellee.

Before MATHEWS, HEALY and LEMMON, Circuit Judges.


LEMMON, Circuit Judge.

Unlike many other trapped tax-evaders, the appellant does not maintain, like Abimelech of Gerar, that "In the integrity of my heart and innocency of my hands have I done this".1 With his admitted record of gambling, bootlegging, embezzlement, perjury, and prostitution, such a protestation of purity would hardly be convincing.

On the contrary, the appellant relies upon such technical defenses as these:

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