Meyers v. Hunter

BRATTON, Circuit Judge.

An indictment returned in the United States Court for Northern Texas charged H. L. Meyers with attempted robbery of a national bank. Conviction was had, and on October 12, 1936, the court imposed a sentence of twenty-five years imprisonment in the federal penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kansas. After serving a portion of the sentence, the defendant filed in the case a motion challenging the sentence on the ground that the maximum penalty for the •crime charged in the indictment was twenty years. The, motion was denied. On appeal, the1 circuit court of appeals held that the…