Watson v. United States

STEPHENS, Chief Justice.

The appellant Watson was conyicted of housebreaking in Criminal No. 73156 and of a similar charge in Criminal No. 73786 in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia. On October 3, 1944, a sentence of eight months to two years in the penitentiary in the first of these cases, and of one to four years in the second, was imposed upon him, the sentences to run concurrently. These cases are hereafter referred to as the pre-escape housebreaking cases. The appellant was detained in the Washington Asylum and Jail in the District of Columbia pending transfer…