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Page 1: a typed transcript copy, United States vs. Alphonse Capone, before Judge Wilkerson, October 17th, 1931, 11:15 o'clock A.M., recording the reading of the jury's verdict.
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Partial transcript of evidence before Judge Wilkerson, 17 October 1931 (filed 1937)

Partial transcript of proceedings before Judge James H. Wilkerson on 17 October 1931, the day of the verdict, filed in 1937 during the dispute over the jail sentences.

Date
1937-09-08
Kind
case-file
Source
National Archives Catalog
Retrieved
2026-10-11
NAID
55312156
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 “Partial Transcript of Evidence Taken before Judge James H. Wilkerson on October 17, 1931.” The catalog’s date for the item, 8 September 1937, is its filing date; the proceedings it records are those of 17 October 1931, the day the jury returned its verdict. The catalog holds it as four page images and a PDF.

It was filed during the appeal from the denial of the 1937 petition to vacate the misdemeanor sentences. That appeal was dismissed in 93 F.2d 840.

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.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.itemMemorandum denying petition to vacate misdemeanor sentences (12 August 1937)District Court memorandum of 12 August 1937 denying Capone's petition to vacate the county-jail sentences on counts 13 and 18. The Seventh Circuit dismissed the appeal.itemUnited States v. Capone, 93 F.2d 840 (7th Cir. 1937)The Seventh Circuit dismisses Capone's appeal from the refusal to vacate his 1931 county-jail sentences on counts 13 and 18. Decided 20 December 1937.