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Typed verdict form headed In the District Court of the United States for the Northern District of Illinois, Eastern Division, United States vs Alphonse Capone, Nos. 22852 and 23232 consolidated, with the counts written in by hand and twelve juror signatures below.
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Jury 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.

Date
1931-10-17
Kind
case-file
Source
National Archives Catalog
Retrieved
2026-10-11
NAID
628966
Docket
No. 22852 and No. 23232 (consolidated), 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 National Archives catalogs this as “Al Capone’s Guilty Verdict.” It is a typed form in United States vs. Alphonse Capone, Nos. 22852 and 23232 consolidated, District Court of the United States for the Northern District of Illinois, Eastern Division. The counts are filled in by hand:

We, the Jury find the Defendant NOT GUILTY as charged in Indictment No. 22852 and we find the Defendant GUILTY on Counts one-five-nine-thirteen and eighteen and NOT GUILTY on Counts 2-3-4-6-7-8-10-11-12-14-15-16-17-19-20-21-22 Indictment No. 23232.

Twelve jurors signed below. Their handwritten names are not transcribed here. The second page, the endorsement, reads “Verdict Returned in open Court before Judge Wilkerson Oct 17, 1931.” The image stored with this page is the first page, downloaded from the catalog during research on 11 October 2026.

Counts 1, 5 and 9 charged attempted evasion of tax for 1925, 1926 and 1927; counts 13 and 18 charged failure to file returns, which the Seventh Circuit’s 1932 opinion places in 1928 and 1929. The sentence on these counts is in the judgment of 24 October 1931.

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.itemJudgment and sentence, United States v. Alphonse Capone (24 October 1931)Judgment of 24 October 1931 on counts One, Five, Nine, Thirteen and Eighteen of indictment 23232: imprisonment totaling eleven years and fines totaling $50,000, with costs of prosecution.itemCommitment to the Cook County Jail and the Leavenworth penitentiary (24 October 1931)Commitment writ of 24 October 1931 for Alphonse Capone, addressed to the U.S. Marshal, the warden at Leavenworth and the Cook County jailer, covering the felony terms of ten years and $30,000 in fines.itemMotion in Arrest of Judgment (23 October 1931)Defense motion in arrest of judgment filed after the verdict in the Capone tax case. The court heard argument and overruled it on 24 October 1931.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.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.