United States v. William Eugene Carter

WINTER, Circuit Judge:

After his motion to dismiss his ten count indictment was denied without evi-dentiary hearing, William Eugene Carter was convicted in the Eastern District of Virginia on charges of forgery and conspiracy, 18 U.S.C.A. §§ 495, 371 and 2, and sentenced to an aggregate term of sixteen years. The Virginia prosecution *427involved stolen Treasury checks, some of which were the object of an earlier prosecution against defendant in the District of Columbia. The motion was grounded upon the assertion that defendant had been promised, in consideration of his help and cooperation in…