Brosius v. Botkin

In November, 1938, appellant pleaded guilty in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia to two felony indictments. One charged robbery in May, 1938; the other assault with a dangerous weapon in June, 1938. For each offense he was sentenced to serve a term "in an institution of the Jail type” from six months to a year, the second sentence to. begin at the end of service of the first. The total period of confinement embraced1 in the two sentences was two years, unless shortened by parole. Appellant was first confined in the Washington City Jail, but subsequently was removed…