Opinion
No. 11634.
December 19, 1946. Rehearing Denied January 22, 1947. Writ of Certiorari Denied March 31, 1947.
Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Northern District of Georgia; Robert L. Russell, Judge.
L.C. Prichard and Ernest Pruitt were convicted of conspiracy to violate various provisions of the Internal Revenue laws, and they appeal.
Judgment affirmed.
J.F. Kemp and J.M. Johnson, both of Atlanta, Ga., for appellants.
M. Neil Andrews, U.S. Atty., and Jas. T. Manning and Allen E. Lockerman, Asst. U.S. Attys., all of Atlanta, Ga., for appellee.
Before HUTCHESON, McCORD, and LEE, Circuit Judges.
Indicted for conspiracy to violate various provisions of the Internal Revenue laws, both defendants were convicted. They appealed, assigning error on the ground that the evidence was insufficient to warrant conviction. The evidence of Pruitt's guilt is overwhelming, indeed, we think it hardly permits of any other reasonable conclusion than that he was guilty. As to Prichard, although the evidence is not nearly so strong, it yet presents a chain of circumstances pointing, in the absence of adequate explanation, unerringly to his guilt. The judgment is affirmed.
Nounes v. United States, 5 Cir., 4 F.2d 833.