Emory Newton Brown v. United States

JONES, Circuit Judge.

The appellant was convicted on three counts of an information charging armed robbery of a bank. He was sentenced to serve twenty years on the first count, twenty years on the second count and ten years on the third count, the sentence on the second and third counts to run concurrently with the sentence on the first count. He was committed to the Federal Penitentiary at Atlanta, Georgia.

Subsequently the appellant was subpoenaed to appear as a witness on behalf of the United States in another case. During the trial of this case, he was adjudged in contempt of court for…