PER CURIAM.
Defendant appeals from the district court's refusal to set aside his sentence as a second offender for the sale of heroin. He was first convicted in 1954. In 1957 on his plea of guilty to another heroin sale, he was sentenced under 21 U.S.C. § 174 as a second offender to a 12-year term in prison on each of two counts, the sentences to run concurrently. This is the sentence here under attack. The statute had been amended in 1956 to increase the penalties...
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