MYERS v. UNITED STATES

No. 21783.

356 F.2d 469 (1966)

Sam G. MYERS, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES of America, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied March 15, 1966.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Newton B. Schwartz, Schwartz & Lapin, Houston, Tex., for appellant.

Morton L. Susman, Asst. U. S. Atty., Woodrow Seals, U. S. Atty., Jerald D. Mize, James R. Gough, Asst. U. S. Attys., Houston, Tex., for appellee.

Before JONES and BROWN, Circuit Judges, and DYER, District Judge.


PER CURIAM.

Of the many procedural errors Appellant asserts to have occurred in his trial for tax evasion, only one has any semblance of merit or requires discussion: permitting the jury to use a summary of the evidence prepared by a Government agent who testified. Though the submission to the jury in tax evasion cases, where the facts are often voluminous and complicated, of summaries of the evidence (in either narrative or tabular form) has often been approved,...

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