Chapman v. United States

ERVIN, District Judge.

Defendant Chapman was tried and convicted under an indictment charging him with being an accessory after the fact to H. Edward Jackson and John J. Jackson in an embezzlement of money from a national bank. The court sentenced him for a term of eighteen months. He then filed a motion to correct the sentence because it was in excess of what the court could impose. The contention being that section 551, 18 USCA, does not declare the offense of accessory after the fact but only provides for its punishment. That section 246, 18 USCA, is the only section under which Chapman…