Stevenson v. Johnston

HARRIS, District Judge.

Petitioner, confined at Alcatraz Penitentiary, is serving a term of twenty-five years imposed under two counts of an indictment charging him with the armed robbery of a national bank.1 He was sentenced on November 8, 1937, to a term of fifteen years under count one of said indictment and twenty-five years under count two, the sentences to run consecutively. The trial court on January 18, 1938, amended and modified the sentences as follows: “Sentences under count one and two of the indictment to be served concurrently and not consecutively”. 2

Petitioner has served…