Pat Trueblood Longknife v. United States

On the 11th of February, 1965, in the District of Hawaii, appellant, using the name of Pat Trueblood Longknife, filed a voluntary bankruptcy petition.

On January 27, 1966, in an indictment filed in the District of Hawaii appellant was charged in two counts of violating 18 U.S.C. § 152 by making false oaths in the said bankruptcy proceeding. About a month later appellant entered a plea of nolo contendere to Count I of said indictment which charged that “he did knowingly and fraudulently fail to dis close that among the assets of the said bankrupt was a 1960 Peuguot [sic] sedan * * On motion of the government Count II of the indictment was dismissed. On March 28, 1966, appellant was placed upon three years’ probation.

Approximately two months later the probation officer filed a petition for revocation of probation, alleging in part that prior to being placed on probation and from March 28, 1966, to June, 1966, appellant had willfully and knowingly concealed from the probation officer and the court that he had, under the name of Dorman Pat True Long, filed a bankruptcy proceeding in the District of Hawaii and on December 6, 1961, been discharged from his debts. The petition further…