Evans v. District Judge of the United States for the Western District of Tennessee

Before the passage of the so-called Probation Act of March 4, 1925 (Comp. St. Supp. 1925, §§ 10564%-10564%c), Evans had been convicted in the District Court at Memphis of a felony and sentenced thereon to the penitentiary, and had brought a writ of error to this court. The conviction and sentence were affirmed on December 1, 1924. Owing to delays involved in an application for a certiorari, the mandate of this court did not go down until January, 1926. It does not appear whether or not Evans had commenced to serve his sentence when, on April 2,1926, he presented to the District Judge his…