LEWIS v. UNITED STATES

No. 14450.

227 F.2d 561 (1955)

George W. LEWIS, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES of America, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Ninth Circuit.

June 30, 1955.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James E. Burns, Henry W. Howard, San Francisco, Cal., for appellant.

Lloyd H. Burke, U. S. Atty., John Lockley, San Francisco, Cal., for appellee.

Before ORR and FEE, Circuit Judges, and JAMES M. CARTER, District Judge.


JAMES ALGER FEE, Circuit Judge.

Lewis was indicted in three counts for attempting willfully and knowingly to defeat and evade income taxes by filing in each instance a false and fraudulent return: (1) understating his income in the amount of $187,817.22 for the year 1947, the return showing a tax due of $2,018.10 when actually $145,761.90 was due, (2) understating the income of his wife for the same year by $185,757.38, the...

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