Williams v. United States

The appellant Williams was, on Nov. 9, 1942, sentenced on his plea of guilty, in the Western District of Louisiana, on two counts of an indictment charging violations of the Dyer Act, 18 U.S.C.A. § 408. The sentence on the first count was for three years to run concurrently with a state sentence which he was then serving at the Georgia State Penitentiary. On the second count, imposition of sentence was suspended and defendant was placed on probation. On July 24, 1946, within the five year probation period the act provides, he was arrested for violation of his probation and having pleaded…