HOWELL v. UNITED STATES

No. 5824.

172 F.2d 213 (1949)

HOWELL v. UNITED STATES.

United States Court of Appeals Fourth Circuit.

January 24, 1949.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. Raymond Gordon, of Charleston, W. Va., for appellant.

A. Garnett Thompson, Asst. U. S. Atty., of Charleston, W. Va. (Leslie E. Given, U. S. Atty., of Charleston, W. Va., on the brief), for appellee.

Before PARKER, Chief Judge, DOBIE, Circuit Judge, and HENDERSON, District Judge.


PARKER, Chief Judge.

In December 1940, the appellant Howell was tried and convicted in the court below of the crime of bank robbery and was sentenced to a term of twenty years imprisonment to commence at the end of another sentence he was then serving in the federal penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kansas. He was represented by counsel of his own choosing at this trial; but on June 24, 1948, the sentence imposed upon him was held void by the United States District Judge...

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