Lawrence Ingram Driver, Jr. v. United States

PAUL, District Judge.

The record in this case discloses the following facts: On April 26, 1954, a criminal information was filed against the appellant in the Eastern District of South Carolina charging him with violation of Section 659, Title 18 United States Code Annotated, the particular offense being the theft of a box of candy from an interstate shipment. On the same date he entered a plea of guilty to the charge and the Court entered an order which, after reciting his conviction upon his plea, proceeded in the following language.

“It is Adjudged that the defendant is hereby committed to…