Page 1: a typed sheet headed "Notes for Argument in Capone Case," with numbered points in the margin and a handwritten line added in ink. — Open the full imageJPG, 1600 × 2589 px, 0.3 MB

Notes for Argument in Capone Case (October 1931)

Typed notes for the government's argument in the Capone income-tax trial, October 1931, which the catalog attributes to George E. Q. Johnson.

Date: 1931-10
Kind: case-file
Source: National Archives Catalog
Retrieved: 2026-10-11
NAID: 12021803
Rights: A record of the Office of the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois, Department of Justice, held by the National Archives at Chicago in Record Group 118. A United States government work, public domain in the United States under 17 U.S.C. § 105. The National Archives catalog lists access and use as unrestricted.

Typed notes for the government’s argument in the Capone tax trial, dated October 1931. The catalog attributes them to U.S. Attorney George E. Q. Johnson and holds them as ten page images and a PDF.

The pages were not read for this archive beyond confirming that the first image downloads, so nothing from them is quoted. The description follows the National Archives catalog entry.

itemRecords Relating to the Prosecution of Alphonse Capone (U.S. Attorney, Chicago)The U.S. Attorney's file at Chicago on the 1931 income-tax prosecution of Alphonse Capone: correspondence with Washington, notes, reports and drafts. Seven items are digitized.

itemGeorge E. Q. Johnson's handwritten notes (8 October 1931)Handwritten notes dated 8 October 1931 that the catalog says U.S. Attorney George E. Q. Johnson made during the Capone income-tax prosecution.

itemJury verdict, United States v. Alphonse Capone (17 October 1931)The signed jury verdict: not guilty on indictment 22852, guilty on counts one, five, nine, thirteen and eighteen of indictment 23232, returned before Judge Wilkerson on 17 October 1931.