Davis v. United States

YOUMANS, District Judge.

The petition of the applicant and the response of the attorney for the government raise important questions relative to the Probation Act (Comp. St. §§ 10564%-10564‘%e). The petition of the applicant is long and is accompanied by a brief signed by himself, in ■which extensive quotations are made from adjudicated cases.

The applicant alleges in his petition that he is innocent of the charge upon which he was convicted; that prior to and subsequent to his conviction he returned to all discontented persons the money that they had sent to him upon the representations he had…