NETERER, District Judge (after stating the facts as above).
This court has always exercised control of its judgments during the term, and has on occasion, on extraordinary circumstances, where the court was not fully advised as to indigent circumstances of defendant's family, reduced a sentence by amendment; this being a judicial act. This power has been approved by the Supreme Court of the United States in United States v. Benz,
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