Daugherty v. United States

The district attorney has filed petition for rehearing in this ease,' complaining that we erred in holding that the sentence imposed on Daugherty was .imprisonment for five years, and in not holding that it was for fifteen years. On this subject 16 C. J., 1306, says:

“However, where successive terms of imprisonment are imposed, the sentence ought to be so definite and certain as to advise the prisoner and the officer ehaz’ged with the execution of the sentence of the time of its beginning and termination, without their being required to inspect the records of any other court or of any other…