# Petition for Appeal filed by Ahern and Fink (24 October 1931)

Canonical: https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-55311744-capone-petition-appeal-1931/

Petition for appeal to the Circuit Court of Appeals, filed by Capone's counsel Ahern and Fink on the day of sentencing.

A petition for appeal to the Circuit Court of Appeals, filed by defense counsel Ahern and Fink on 24 October 1931, the day of the judgment. The catalog holds it as three page images and a PDF. A related "Order Allowing Appeal" (NAID 55311715) carries the same date and is not filed here.

The Seventh Circuit's opinion on the appeal, 56 F.2d 927, names counsel for the appellant as Michael J. Ahern and Albert Fink, both of Chicago. Neither the catalog entry nor a page read for this archive states a case number for this item; the parent file carries Nos. 22852 and 23232.

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

## Sources

- National Archives Catalog: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/55311744
- National Archives file unit 1105475, The United States of America v. Alphonse Capone: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/1105475