Al Capone concurrently. New lawyers hired to represent Capone were Washington-based tax experts. They filed a writ of habeas corpus based on a Supreme Court ruling that tax evasion was not fraud, which apparently meant that Capone had been convicted on charges relating to years that were actually outside the time limit for prosecution. However, a judge interpreted the law so that the time that Capone had spent in Miami was subtracted from the age of the offences, thereby denying the appeal of both Capone's conviction and sentence. Capone was sent to Atlanta U.S. Penitentiary in May 1932, aged 33. Upon his
Pre-Code crime films be rejected by local censors. Justus D. Barnes, was "Bronco Billy Anderson", leader of an outlaw gang, from the silent film, "The Great Train Robbery" (1903), the first, "Western", ever filmed. The Western was a subgenre, of crime films. Scenes where criminals aimed guns at the camera, were considered inappropriate by many state censor boards, in the pre-Code and Code era, and were removed from public viewing. In the early 1930s, several real life criminals became celebrities. Two in particular captured the American imagination: Al Capone and John Dillinger. Gangsters like Capone had transformed the perception of entire towns. Capone