United States v. Ragen

How later courts describe this case

• failure to recite indictment in open court was not sufficient to make it defective
• “In order to declare a denial of [due process] we must find that the absence of that fairness fatally infected the trial; the acts complained of must be of such quality as necessarily prevents a fair trial.” Id.
• “[a] mind intent upon willful [tax] evasion is inconsistent with surprised innocence”