Legal Opinion
Summers v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Decided February 27, 1926No. 2422PublishedCited by 40 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WATKINS, District Judge.
L. P. Summers, the plaintiff in error, was tried in the District Court of the United States for the Western district of Virginia, at Roanoke, upon an indictment containing sis counts charging him with violation of section 35 of the Penal Code, as amended by Act of Congress approved October 23,1918 (Comp. St. Arm. Supp. 1919, § 10199). The result was a conviction upon counts 5 and 6 and an acquittal upon the other four counts. He was sentenced to confinement in the federal penitentiary at Atlanta, Ga., for a period of 15 months, which was well within the limit for which…
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