United States v. Erwing

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER ON BAIL ON APPEAL

OLIVER J. CARTER, District Judge.

After sentencing defendant to concurrent fifteen year terms of imprisonment for conviction on three counts of an indictment charging a violation of 21 U.S.C. § 174, the sale of heroin, a narcotic drug, the Court fixed bail on appeal at $20,000. On March 16, 1967, the government made an ex parte motion to set aside bail on appeal because defendant had been arrested on March 15, 1967, and complaints were filed against him before the United States Commissioner in San Francisco on March 16, 1967, charging defendant with…