United States v. Doyle E. Raftis, Vernon F. Hawkins, Thomas M. Bugg, Curt Martin, Melville W. Ahlmeyer, Hildreth M. Kniss, Raymond P. Guzy

Appellant Vernon F. Hawkins, whose conviction on eighteen counts of mail fraud we affirmed on direct appeal, sub norm. Raftis v. United States, 364 F.2d 948 (8th Cir. 1966), sought release from the burdens of part of his sentence in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri through a Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure 35 motion for modification and correction of the sentence. The district court denied relief, and he appealed.

Hawkins urges that following his conviction the trial court pronounced sentences which in legal effect were concurrent rather than…