Riggs v. United States

WADDILL, Circuit Judge.

These two cases, the first named being two criminal prosecutions consolidated by consent, and the second a writ of habeas corpus growing out of the said eases, involve the question of the validity of the sentence imposed upon the plaintiff in error (in criminal ease No. 2470), who was defendant in the District Court, and will be referred to hereinafter as defendant. The cases were heard together, because of their relation to each other, and will be considered and disposed of in a single opinion. In the criminal case the defendant was indicted for feloniously having in…