United States v. Lowenstein

Citations

• 126 F. 884
• 1904 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 439

Syllabus

<p>1. Bankruptcy — Concealment op Assets — Conviction—Evidence.</p> <p>Evidence that after defendant had been declared a bankrupt he received from several persons, who owed him money at the time his petition was filed, several small sums on account of their debts, and that he applied the money thus received to the payment of two of his own creditors, was insufficient to establish a fraudulent concealment of assets, to sustain a conviction under Bankr. Act July 1, 1898, c. 541, § 29, subsec. “b,” cl. 1, 30 Stat. 554 [U. S. Comp. St. 1901, p. 3433], prohibiting a bankrupt from knowingly and fraudulently concealing, while a bankrupt, from his trustee, money belonging to his estate in bankruptcy.</p>