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UNITED STATES v. LONG

No. 80-3671.

656 F.2d 1162 (1981)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. James Ralph LONG, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit. Unit A

September 25, 1981.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joe D. Pegram, Oxford, Miss., for defendant-appellant.

George L. Phillips, U. S. Atty., Daniel E. Lynn, Asst. U. S. Atty., Jackson, Miss., for plaintiff-appellant.

Before RUBIN, RANDALL and TATE, Circuit Judges.

ALVIN B. RUBIN, Circuit Judge:

The defendant was convicted of a crime for which life imprisonment was mandatory. The term of a sentence, however, is not the only decision to be made in sentencing a person convicted of crime. Because the trial judge sentenced the defendant to a term of life imprisonment without, as Fed.R.Crim.P. 32 requires, either obtaining a presentence report or finding that there was sufficient information in the record to enable the meaningful...

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