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