DUPREE v. UNITED STATES

No. 14659.

218 F.2d 781 (1955)

C. A. DUPREE, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES of America, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

January 20, 1955.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John D. Cofer, G. Hume Cofer, Austin, Tex., for appellant.

Bradford F. Miller, Asst. U. S. Atty., C. F. Herring, U. S. Atty., San Antonio, Tex., Francis C. Broaddus, Jr., Asst. U. S. Atty., El Paso, Tex., for appellee.

Before HOLMES and TUTTLE, Circuit Judges, and ALLRED, District Judge.


TUTTLE, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from a conviction of the accused below in an income tax fraud case in which the government based its prosecution on circumstantial evidence which it considered met the standards required to make out a case on the available funds and expenditure method of proof. Appellant complains of error in the charge of the trial court, in the lack of sufficient evidence of available assets at the starting point, and in the rejection of...

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