Joseph R. Jackson v. United States

WILBUR K. MILLER, Circuit Judge.

The District of Columbia Code provides that one who is convicted of carrying an unlicensed pistol shall be fined not more than $1,000 or imprisoned not more than one year, or both. It further provides that one convicted of the offense after having previously been convicted here of a similar violation, or after having previously been convicted of a felony either here or elsewhere, shall be imprisoned not more than ten years. 1 Thus the fact of prior conviction increases ten-fold the maximum imprisonment authorized by statute.

Joseph R. Jackson was indicted for…