GOVERNMENT OF VIRGIN ISLANDS v. HAYS

Crim. No. 38-1964.

235 F.Supp. 765 (1964)

GOVERNMENT OF the VIRGIN ISLANDS, Plaintiff, v. Horace K. HAYS, Defendant.

District Court, Virgin Islands D. St. Thomas and St. John.

December 3, 1964.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Almeric L. Christian, U. S. Atty. for the Dist. of the Virgin Islands, St. Thomas, V. I., William E. Scent, U. S. Atty., for the Western Dist. of Kentucky, Louisville, Ky., admitted pro hac vice, for the Government of the Virgin Islands.

Bailey & Wood, St. Thomas, V. I., Cunningham & Weinstein, Miami, Fla., Arthur B. Cunningham, Miami, Fla., of counsel, admitted pro hac vice, for Horace K. Hays.


GORDON, District Judge.

The defendant, Horace K. Hays, is charged in each of three counts of an information with the wilful attempt to evade or defeat the payment of the Virgin Islands income tax, in that he filed with the Tax Division of the Department of Finance of the Government of the Virgin Islands a false and fraudulent income tax return for the years 1957, 1958, and 1959. The aforesaid being a violation of 33 Virgin Islands Code § 1521 which provides:...

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