Durrett v. United States

HOLMES, Circuit Judge.

This appeal is from separate sentences aggregating sixty years’ imprisonment on four counts of an indictment charging violations of the act of May 18, 1934, 12 U.S.C.A. § 588b, as amended by the act of August 24, 1937, c. 747, 50 Stat. 749. On the record before us, no question is presented except the sufficiency of the indictment to sustain the sentences of twenty years each on the first and second counts, the appellant conceding that the single sentence of twenty years on counts three and four is valid.

Omitting formal parts, the first count, in substance, charged…