Ex Parte Charles Beland

HAWKINS, Judge.

August 28th, 1918, relator was convicted in the State Criminal District Court of Tarrant County of felony theft, and his punishment fixed at three years confinement in the penitentiary. The sentence was suspended, however, upon recommendation of the jury, and relator was released on his own recognizance. On November 30th, 1920 relator was convicted in the Federal District Court for the Northern District of Texas, at Fort Worth in said Tarrant County for violating the Federal “Anti-narcotic Law” and on December 6th, 1920 was sentenced by that court to serve two years in the…