Cisson v. United States

PARKER, Circuit Judge.

W. E: Cisson, defendant in the eourt below, was indicted for the sale on September 14, 1928, of a pint of apple brandy in violation of the National Prohibition Act. It was charged that this was a second offense, and that he had been convicted of a first offense more than two years prior thereto. On May 28,1929; he appeared in court and pleaded guilty and was sentenced to á term of five years in the peni tentiary, with direction that sentence “take effect immediately.” He thereupon procured a lawyer, who on June 3d, during the same term of court, made a motion for a new…