Brown v. Hudspeth

PHILLIPS, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from a judgment denying a petition for a writ of habeas corpus.

The petitioner, Rufus Brown, was charged by indictment containing two counts with violations of 18 U.S.C.A. § 398. He was tried and found guilty on the first count and sentenced to serve a term of five years in the United States Penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kansas, > where he is now confined.

The caption of the indictment reads as follows:

“At a stated term of the District Court oí the United States of America for the District of Minnesota held at the City of Saint Paul within and for the…