UNITED STATES v. WILSON

No. 71-1318.

450 F.2d 495 (1971)

UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. Arondus Lee WILSON, Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided October 13, 1971.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

George William Birkhead, Norfolk, Va. (Court-appointed) [Vandeventer, Black, Meredith & Martin, Norfolk, Va., on brief], for appellant.

John A. Field, III, Asst. U. S. Atty. (Brian P. Gettings, U. S. Atty., on brief), for appellee.

Before HAYNSWORTH, Chief Judge, SOBELOFF, Senior Circuit Judge, and WINTER, Circuit Judge.


SOBELOFF, Senior Circuit Judge:

By this appeal Arondus Wilson attacks a sentence of imprisonment for three years imposed upon him following his plea of guilty to a charge of forging an endorsement on a United States Treasurer's check in the amount of $90.82. Under the statute, 18 U.S.C. § 495, the maximum penalty for the crime is ten years incarceration and a $1,000.00 fine.

When he committed the offense, appellant was 20 years old, and he was 23 at the...

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