BRATTON, Circuit Judge.
An indictment returned in the United States Court for Northern Texas charged H. L. Meyers with attempted robbery of a national bank. Conviction was had, and on October 12, 1936, the court imposed a sentence of twenty-five years imprisonment in the federal penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kansas. After serving a portion of the sentence, the defendant filed in the case a motion challenging the sentence on the ground that the maximum penalty for the...
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