Nix v. United States

The appellant was convicted June 21, 1937, and sentenced to pay a fine of $10,-000 and to serve ten years in the penitentiary, and the execution of the imprisonment sentence was suspended and appellant put on probation. On April 23, 1942, his probation was revoked and the imprisonment sentence was reduced to two years. The next day he filed a notice of appeal to this Court, stating as grounds of appeal only rulings made during the trial in 1937. No record on appeal was ever prepared and filed in this Court. On the call of the case on November 4, 1942, the United States moved to dismiss the…