Rowley v. Welch
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
1Opinion of the Court
RUTLEDGE, Associate Justice.
The question, briefly stated, is whether the District Court has power to amend sentences for crime inadvertently pronounced to run concurrently so as to make them consecutive, when the amendment is made before the prisoner is removed from the courthouse on the occasion when sentence is pronounced. The appeal is from an order discharging a writ of habeas corpus and remanding appellant to appellee’s custody to serve out the remainder of the second sentence. We find no error in the court’s action.
Appellant was indicted in two separate indictments on two different…
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