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UNITED STATES v. BETHEA

No. 75-1472.

537 F.2d 1187 (1976)

UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. William Edward BETHEA, Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided April 29, 1976.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas R. Frantz and Frederick T. Stant, Jr., Virginia Beach, Va., for appellant.

Roger T. Williams, First Asst. U. S. Atty., Norfolk, Va., and (William B. Cummings, U. S. Atty., Norfolk, Va., on brief) for appellee.

Before HAYNSWORTH, Chief Judge, and CRAVEN and FIELD, Circuit Judges.

CRAVEN, Circuit Judge:

This is a "net worth" income tax evasion1 case. More than 20 years ago Mr. Justice Clark, speaking for a unanimous Court, lectured the nation's prosecutors on the dangers of the net-worth method of proof in tax evasion prosecutions.2 What he then said, in Holland v. United States, 348 U.S. 121, 75 S.Ct. 127, 99 L.Ed. 150 (1954), has not been eroded...

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