King v. United States

EDGERTON, Associate Justice.

This is an appeal from a sentence of three to fifteen months imprisonment, imposed in the District Court, for violation of the Liquor Taxing Act of 1934, 48 Stat. 317, § 207, 26 U.S.C.A. § 1152g. Appellant was first sentenced on April 23, 1937 to a term of one to two years. That sentence was “void” because it did not include the words “at hard labor,” which occur in the statute under which it was imposed. Harman v. United States, C.C., 50 F. 921. Cf. Ex parte Karstendick, 93 U.S. 396, 399, 23 L.Ed. 889; Egan v. United States, 52 App. D.C. 384, 397, 287 F. 958: De…