Page 1: a typed transcript sheet, United States of America vs. Alphonse Capone, before Judge Wilkerson, Thursday, July 30th, A.D. 1931, 10 o'clock A.M., listing George E. Q. Johnson and others for the government and Messrs. Nash & Ahern for the defendant. — Open the full imageJPG, 1600 × 2635 px, 0.4 MB

Order consolidating Nos. 22852 and 23232 (30 July 1931)

Court order of 30 July 1931 consolidating Capone's two income-tax indictments for trial. The catalog title prints the second number as 23832.

Date: 1931-07-30
Kind: case-file
Source: National Archives Catalog
Retrieved: 2026-10-11
NAID: 55311098
Docket: No. 22852, U.S. District Court, N.D. Ill., Eastern Division
Rights: A record of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, held by the National Archives at Chicago in Record Group 21. 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.

The catalog title is “Order Consolidating #22852 with #23832.” The indictment, the verdict and the judgment give the second case number as 23232, so the catalog title appears to carry a typing error. It is kept as the catalog prints it, and the docket field here gives only the number the title states correctly. The catalog holds the order as eight page images and a PDF.

The order is dated 30 July 1931. The Seventh Circuit’s opinion places the withdrawal of Capone’s guilty plea on the same day: “appellant withdrew his plea of guilty and entered a plea of not guilty.”

The page images were not read for this archive. The description follows the National Archives catalog entry.

itemThe United States of America v. Alphonse Capone: criminal case file, Nos. 22852 and 23232National Archives file unit for the 1931 federal income-tax prosecution of Alphonse Capone in the U.S. District Court at Chicago, case numbers 22852 and 23232. The catalog lists 226 item-level descriptions under it.

itemIndictment in Case Number 22852 (March 1931)The first income-tax indictment against Alphonse Capone, returned by a federal grand jury at Chicago in the March Term 1931. Its one count concerns tax for 1924. The jury acquitted him on it.

itemIndictment in Case Number 23232 (June 1931)The twenty-two-count income-tax indictment returned against Alphonse Capone on 5 June 1931. He was convicted on counts 1, 5, 9, 13 and 18.itemCapone v. United States, 56 F.2d 927 (7th Cir. 1932)The Seventh Circuit affirms Alphonse Capone's 1931 conviction on three felony counts of attempted income-tax evasion and two misdemeanor counts of failing to file returns. Decided 27 February 1932.