United States v. Helwig

BIGGS, Circuit Judge.

The appellant, Helwig, was found guilty of a violation of the National Motor Vehicle Theft Act, 18 U.S.C.A. § 408, by a jury of the District Court of the United States for the Western District of Pennsylvania and thereafter was sentenced to imprisonment. Following his conviction he appealed to this court, being authorized to prosecute his appeal in forma pauperis. Helwig was tried at Erie, Pennsylvania, being brought there by a writ of habeas corpus ad prose-quendum from the federal penitentiary at Atlanta, Georgia where he was serving a sentence having suffered…