Wilmington, N.C., May 20 (AP)—John Hanby, wealthy wholesale merchant and prominent church man, convicted on one of six counts contained in a bill of indictment charging violation of the federal income tax law, was sentenced by Judge Meekins in federal district court today to pay a fine of $500 and all court costs. Hanby was specifically convicted of an “effort to evade payment of the proper income tax in 1921.”
Motion to set aside the verdict weas made by defense counsel but was not insisted after Judge Meekins intimated that he would not impose a prison sentence.
From page 4 of the Goldsboro News, May 21, 1926
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