United States v. Harold Leroy Lewis

LUMBARD, Circuit Judge.

The defendant, who was represented by counsel, waived indictment and on December 28, 1953 pleaded guilty to six counts of an information charging him with the sale of narcotic drugs on six different occasions in June, July and August of 1953 in Hartford, Connecticut. He now claims that the District Court had no power to sentence him as it did on January 25, 1954 to five years imprisonment on each of the first five counts to run concurrently and to two years imprisonment on the sixth count to run consecutively.

The defendant contends that the Boggs Act, enacted in 1951 to…