RAYBORN v. UNITED STATES

No. 12602.

234 F.2d 368 (1956)

Benjamin F. RAYBORN, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES of America, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Sixth Circuit.

June 20, 1956.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

(Benjamin R. Rayborn, Alcatraz, Cal., on the brief), for appellant.

William B. Jones, Louisville, Ky. (J. Leonard Walker, Charles M. Allen, Louisville, Ky., on the brief), for appellee.

Before SIMONS, Chief Judge, and McALLISTER and STEWART, Circuit Judges.


STEWART, Circuit Judge.

This appeal is from the district court's denial of a motion filed under 28 U.S.C.A. § 2255, to vacate and correct the appellant's thirty year prison sentence. At issue are two aspects of the recurring question of how many separate criminal offenses can properly be carved out of a single transaction.

In 1947 the appellant was found guilty by a jury on each of fourteen counts of an indictment. He received the maximum sentence of...

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