Gutterman v. Hiatt

WATSON, District Judge.

Maurice Alvin Gutterman, the petitioner in the above habeas corpus proceeding, is an inmate of the United States Penitentiary, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania.

The petitioner here attacks the jurisdiction of the United States District Court for the Western District of North Carolina, which sentenced him on May 11, 1943 to four years imprisonment following his plea of guilty to an indictment charging a violation of 18 U.S.C.A. § 415.

Petitioner contends that the checks which he forged, as charged in the indictment, were not securities within the meaning of the National Stolen…