Joseph Dean Humphries v. United States

Appellant’s judgment of conviction entered May 21, 1962, based upon a jury verdict finding him guilty on one count of violating 26 U.S.C.A. § 4705(a) was sustained by this court. Humphries v. United States, 8 Cir., 310 F.2d 377 (1962).

We now have before us an appeal by appellant from the order of the district court denying him relief under Rule 35, Fed.R.Crim.P., and under 28 U.S.C.A. § 2255.

The appeal is predicated upon the disparity between the sentence imposed upon George Allen Owens, a co-defendant, and that imposed upon appellant. Owens pleaded guilty on each of three offenses and…