Leonard J. Williams v. United States

BRATTON, Chief Judge.

Drawn under 18 U.S.C. § 1114, an indictment returned in the United States Court for Kansas charged that Leonard J. Williams forcibly assaulted with a knife an employee and correctional officer of the federal penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kansas, who was then and there engaged in the performance of his official duties. The defendant pleaded guilty and was sentenced to imprisonment for a period of seven years, to begin at the expiration of the sentence he was then serving in the penitentiary at Leavenworth. Almost four years after the imposition of the sentence of seven…