NORTHCOTT, Circuit Judge.
J. C. Fanning, sheriff of Mercer county, W. Va., was found guilty of contempt of court, and sentenced to four months imprisonment in the federal correctional camp at Lee Hall, Va., by the judge of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of West Virginia, on February 22, 1934. From that judgment, he prosecutes this appeal.
The proceeding for contempt against Fanning was based on the escape of two federal prisoners...
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