Hammers v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
In Error to the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of Elorida; Rhydon M. Call, Judge. Riley C. Hammers pleaded guilty to indictments charging violations of the Harrison Anti-Narcotic Act, and brings error from judgment sentencing him to jail.
1Opinion of the Court
WALKER, Circuit Judge.
On February 10, 1919, the plaintiff in error, Riley C. Hammers, pleaded guilty to 12 indictments charging violations of the Harrison Anti-Narcotic Act (Comp. St. §§ 6287g-6287q), and in each of the cases was sentenced to be imprisoned in the United States penitentiary at Atlanta, Ga., for a term of less than one year, beginning from the date of the expiration of a previously imposed sentence which he was serving in the same penitentiary at the time of his above-mentioned convictions on pleas of guilty. On July 21, 1920, the judge of the District Court of the United…
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