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UNITED STATES v. HODGE

No. 11367.

394 F.2d 122 (1968)

UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. Joe Caldwell HODGE, Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals Fourth Circuit.

Decided April 24, 1968.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Calvin L. Brown, Charlotte, N. C., court-appointed counsel, for appellant.

Wm. Medford, U. S. Atty. (James O. Israel, Jr., Asst. U. S. Atty., on brief), for appellee.

Before HAYNSWORTH, Chief Judge, and BOREMAN and WINTER, Circuit Judges.

PER CURIAM.

Appellant, who is presently serving a life sentence for rape in the North Carolina prison system, asks the Court to overturn a conviction of kidnapping in the United States District Court for the Western District of North Carolina. The kidnapping conviction was entered on a plea of guilty,1 but the defendant contends that the fifty year concurrent sentence constitutes cruel and unusual punishment which is prohibited by the...

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