United States v. Cerecedo

HamiltoN, Judge,

delivered tbe following opinion:

This being a Federal crime, it is not clear that tbe local law requiring two days’ interval after verdict before sentencing would apply in this case. I bave, as a matter of comity, without deciding tbe point, waited tbe two days in other eases, but here tbe point seems to come up for immediate decision, one way or tbe other. Code Crim. Procedure, P. R. § 309.

1. As to allowing bail between verdict and sentence, certainly tbe old bond would not apply. In tbe first place, a bond for appearance, when there is a chance for acquittal, might be quite…