BURWELL v. UNITED STATES

No. 22306.

353 F.2d 88 (1965)

John Oliver BURWELL, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES of America, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

November 24, 1965.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John C. Ciolino, Asst. U. S. Atty., New Orleans, La., Louis C. LaCour, U. S. Atty., for appellee.

Before WISDOM and COLEMAN, Circuit Judges, and BENJAMIN C. DAWKINS, Jr., District Judge.


PER CURIAM:

This is an appeal from the denial of a petition for correction, under 28 U.S.C. § 2255, of a so-called "illegal sentence."

Appellant contends that, on September 21, 1962, when he appeared, under Rule 20 F.R.Crim.Proc., for sentencing upon his pleas of guilty to two indictments charging him with violations of 18 U.S.C. § 2314, the District Judge imposed two sentences of five years each to "run with each other" — concurrent sentences...

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