Keto v. United States

SANBORN, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from an order denying the motion of Tommy Keto (who will be referred to as defendant) to vacate a sentence of imprisonment imposed upon him September 13, 1946, after his plea of guilty to an information charging him with the armed robbery, on August 29, 1946, of the Bear Butte Valley Bank, of Sturgis, South Dakota. See 12 U.S.C.A. § 588b. 1 He contends that the court was without jurisdiction to impose sentence, because the information 2 failed to state that the bank was the kind of a hank the robbery of which would constitute a federal offense. See 12…