SHORT v. UNITED STATES

No. 15954.

271 F.2d 73 (1959)

Edward Lewis SHORT, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES of America, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Ninth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied November 13, 1959.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kay & Buckalew, Wendell P. Kay, Anchorage, Alaska, for appellant.

Roger G. Connor, U. S. Atty., Jerome A. Moore, Asst. U. S. Atty., Juneau, Alaska, for appellee.

Before HAMLEY, HAMLIN and JERTBERG, Circuit Judges.


JERTBERG, Circuit Judge.

Appellant, after trial by jury in the district court for the Territory (now State) of Alaska, at Ketchikan, was convicted on the charge of bribery and sentenced to five years imprisonment, four and a half years of which were suspended with the provision that the suspended period be spent on probation. Final judgment having been rendered December 12, 1957, before Alaska became a State by virtue of the President's Proclamation No. 3269, of January...

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