United States v. M. J. Mickey Logan

BREWSTER, District Judge:

This appeal is from a judgment of conviction for jumping bail in a felony case. 1

On June 1, 1973, appellant was sentenced by the federal court in El Paso, Texas to serve an indeterminate term 2 not to exceed five years, with a special statutory parole term added, on a conviction for conspiracy to import a quantity of marihuana, a Schedule I Controlled Substance, in violation of 21 U.S.C. §§ 952(a) and 960(a)(1). The appellant’s wife and child lived in Houston, Texas, a distance of about 750 miles from El Paso, and he asked the Court for an opportunity to make…