UNITED STATES v. JONES

No. 80-1139. Summary Calendar.

628 F.2d 402 (1980)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Tommy Lee JONES, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit. Unit A.

Rehearing Denied November 18, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Clyde R. Maxwell, Morgan C. Taylor, Newport Beach, Cal., for defendant-appellant.

John M. Potter, Asst. U. S. Atty., Houston, Tex., for the United States.

Before GEE, RUBIN and RANDALL, Circuit Judges.


GEE, Circuit Judge:

Jones, a tax protester, appeals to us his convictions of mail fraud, of supplying false information to his employer, and of failure to file a tax return.

The argument given most prominence in his briefing is that the trial court erred in refusing to admit certain testimony tending to support one of his defensive contentions. This contention was that he believed in good faith that the Federal Reserve System is unconstitutional, that its...

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