United States v. Morgan. United States Ex Rel. Morgan v. Martin, Warden of Attica Prison, Attica, N. Y

AUGUSTUS N. HAND, Circuit Judge.

In 1939 Robert Morgan pleaded guilty and was sentenced in the Northern District of New York to four years imprisonment on each of eight counts in an indictment involving the theft of three letters from the United States mail. He served the time under these sentences, which ran concurrently. In 1950 he was convicted in the County Court of Onondaga County, New York, and was sentenced as a second offender to serve from seven to ten years. New York Penal Law § .1941. He is currently confined in Attica Prison, Attica, New York, pursuant to that sentence. On February…