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JOHNSON v. UNITED STATES

No. 273.

318 U.S. 189 (1943)

63 S.Ct. 549

87 L.Ed. 704

JOHNSON v. UNITED STATES.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided February 15, 1943.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. William A. Gray, with whom Mr. Benjamin M. Golder was on the brief, for petitioner.

Solicitor General Fahy, with whom Assistant Attorney General Clark and Messrs. Sewall Key, Joseph W. Burns, and Archibald Cox were on the brief, for the United States.

MR. JUSTICE DOUGLAS delivered the opinion of the Court.

Petitioner was convicted of wilfully attempting to defeat and evade his federal income taxes for the years 1936 and 1937. He was acquitted for 1935. Petitioner was a political leader in Atlantic City and Atlantic County, New Jersey. The prosecution's theory was that he had received large sums of money from those conducting the numbers game for protection against police interference and had not reported those...

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