Bryant v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
In Error to the District Court of the United States for the Western District of Oklahoma. Criminal prosecution by the United States against Joe Bryant. From the action of the court in imposing a corrected sentence on defendant, he brings error.
1Opinion of the Court
HOOK, Circuit Judge.
This case involves the validity of a correction of a sentence for perjury in violation of section 5392, R. S. (U. S. Comp. St. 1901, p. 3653), which provides for a fine of not more than $2,000 and imprisonment at hard labor not more than five years. Bryant was convicted in Oklahoma and sentenced to imprisonment in the “federal penitentiary at Ft. Reavenworth, Kansas, for a period of one year.” No fine was imposed as the statute requires, and the imprisonment was not expressly specified to be at hard labor. ®n October 10, 1912, he was delivered to the warden of the…
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