MERRITT v. JONES

No. 75-70.

533 S.W.2d 497 (1976)

L. J. (Leaster) MERRITT, County Clerk, Appellant, v. Guy H. JONES, Sr., Appellee.

Supreme Court of Arkansas.

Rehearing Denied March 29, 1976.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jim Guy Tucker, Atty. Gen., Little Rock, Alex G. Streett, Pros. Atty., Fifth Judicial Dist., Russellville, by Robert S. Moore, Jr., C. Alston Jennings, Jr., Asst. Attys. Gen., Little Rock, for appellant.

William M. Clark, Guy Jones, Jr., and Phil Stratton, Conway, for appellee.


RANDALL W. ISHMAEL, Special Justice.

In April, 1973 Appellee was tried in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas, Western Division, and by jury verdict found guilty on four counts of filing fraudulent income tax returns in an attempt to evade taxes for the years 1965 and 1966; and making and subscribing false tax returns (26 U.S.C. § 7201 and 26 U.S.C. § 7206(1).

The sentence of the U. S. District Court was a fine of...

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