Griffin v. United States

Upon an appeal from the denial of a motion to correct sentence, the following facts appear. The appellant, upon his release after serving a sentence in the Kentucky State Reformatory at LaGrange, Kentucky, was issued a Selective Service Registration Certificate by the local board at LaGrange. He was then taken to Lexington, Kentucky, to face charges in the Eastern District of Kentucky for violation of the National Motor Vehicle Theft Act, 18 U.S.C.A. § 408 [now §§ 2311-2313], and upon his plea of guilty was sentenced to serve two years imprisonment. On the next day, April 19, 1944, he was…