Gus La Vern Hiller v. United States

Hiller has been sentenced on one count of an indictment to five years in prison and to four years in prison on the second count, which term is to be served on the expiration of the first. On November 1, 1954, the United States District Court for the Western District of Washington, which imposed sentence, denied a motion to vacate sentence or correct erroneous sentence made by Hiller. The court denied permission to appeal forma pau-peris.

He now seeks from this court permission to appeal forma pauperis. His theory is that 18 U.S.C. § 3568 prevents a federal court from imposing consecutive…