Buhler v. Hill

JOHNSON, District Judge.

Relator pleaded guilty to three counts of an indictment and was sentenced on May 7, 1934, to confinement in the United States Northeastern Penitentiary for a term of one year on count 1, six months on count 2 to run consecutively, and sentence was suspended and defendant placed on probation for two years on count 3. Admission of the relator to the penitentiary was refused because the sentence was not greater than one year, whereupon he was placed in a jail. On May 17, 1934, relator, by written application, requested the court to correct the sentence on count 1 to read,…