Legal Opinion
United States v. Bent
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided June 20, 1949No. 13906PublishedCited by 17 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SANBORN, Circuit Judge.
The District Court, on December 3, 1948, upon the motion of Joseph F. Bent for the correction of a sentence imposed upon him July 10, 1946, for robbing a custodian of government funds, entered an order vacating that sentence and the sentence of Bent’s codefendant William Amos Jones. The court concluded that the second count of the indictment, upon which the defendants (appellees) had been sentenced to imprisonment for 25 years, stated no federal offense and would not support the sentence imposed. Concurrent sentences imposed under other counts of the indictment had…
2Cases cited13 opinions
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- Rose v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1945
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