Adams v. White

WOODROUGH, District Judge.

The petitioner for habeas corpus was convicted of burglarizing a post office and stealing postal funds therefrom as charged against him in two counts of an indictment. One of the counts for burglarizing was laid under section 192 of the Penal Code (18 USCA § 315), which carries a maximum penalty of five years’ imprisonment, and the other under section 190 of the Penal Code (18 USCA § 313), where the maximum imprisonment is three years. Without referring particularly to the counts, the court sentenced the petitioner to serve eight years’ imprisonment and petitioner is…