STEPHENS, Associate Justice.
This is an appeal from a judgment of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia discharging a writ of habeas corpus and dismissing the petition upon which the writ had been issued. The sole question in the case is whether a judgment of the same court sentencing the appellant to imprisonment was valid.
The facts are as follows: On May 16, 1934, an indictment had been returned charging that on April 24, 1934, the appellant had...
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