Bernstein v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Virginia, at Richmond; Edmund Waddill, Jr., Judge. Criminal prosecution by the United States against Samuel Bernstein. On appeal by defendant from orders denying writ of habeas corpus and petition for release from sentence.
1Opinion of the Court
KNAPP, Circuit Judge.
On April 11, 1916, the appellant, Bernstein, convicted in the court below of violating certain provisions of Bankruptcy Act of July 1, 1898, c. 541, 30 Stat. 544-, was sentenced to pay a fine of $1,000, and to be imprisoned “in the penitentiary at Atlanta, in the state of Georgia, for the period of 18 months from this date.” lie sued out a writ of error, and was released on bail pending review by this court, which affirmed the judgment in the following December. 238 Fed. 923, 151 C. C. A. 657. In the meantime, and presumably upon conviction of some other offense, he was…
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