Meyers v. United States

SIBLEY, Circuit Judge.

On a plea of guilty to an indictment in the Northern District of Texas charging an offense of attempted robbery of a bank’s effects under 12 U.S.C.A. § 588b, H. L. Meyers was on Oct. 12, 1936, sentenced to a term of twenty-five years in the penitentiary; to serve which he is now confined in Alcatraz Prison. On Feb. 6, 1940, a motion in the case was heard, the purport of whic-h was that the indictment to which the plea of guilty was made did not set forth the aggravated offense defined in 12 U.S.C.A. § 588b(b), the limit of punishment for which is twenty-five years’…