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5 ‘| dodging income tax. fatal error when he was tried in i aay lost his second appeal to the |CaponeAgain' - Loses Fight \ ~ To Go Free} International ‘News Service “scarface Al” Capone, former overlord of Chicago gengdom, to Supreme ‘Court in an effort to escape his sentence on charges of ‘The high court, without exple- ' nation, denied » petition for re ld yiew in a habeas corpus proceed ing, in which Capone's lawyers contended that the statute of Mmitations prevented his trial. ‘Thus the high court left unan- swered the question of whether or not Capone’s lawyers made &. Federal court in Chicago by not raising the statute of limitations H question in the proper way. + Capone was sentenced to a year ‘in jail on misdemeanor charges and 10 years for dodging income tax for 1925, 1926, and 1927. ‘At the trial bis lawyers moved! ‘tor » directed verdict and asserted thet three years had elapsed sincé|: the offenses, THE Government re)” plied that a six-year statute ap plied in Capone's case. ot — ae