Legal Opinion

Duran Jones v. United States

Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit

Decided June 29, 1967No. 24102_1Published

1Per curiam

On March 16, 1964, on appellant’s plea of guilty on a fifteen-count indictment under the Dyer Act, 18 U.S.C.A. §§ 371 and 2312, the court imposed a general sentence of seven years’ imprisonment to run concurrently with a sentence then being served. In response to a question from the court at the time of sentencing, the defendant had answered that he was serving a five-year sentence and the court had explained to the defendant

“Mr. Jones, so you will know what I am doing, I am going to impose a sentence on you that will mean that if you didn’t have another case, I would be giving you about a…

2Cases cited4 opinions

  1. Hill v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1962
  2. John Benson, Jr. v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1964
  3. Dolack v. United StatesDistrict Court, D. Hawaii · 1963
  4. Brown v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1966

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