Legal Opinion
Howell v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Decided January 24, 1949No. 5824PublishedCited by 82 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
PARKER, Chief Judge.
In December 1940, the appellant Howell was tried and convicted in the court below of the crime of bank robbery and was sentenced to a term of twenty years imprisonment to commence at the end of another sentence he was then serving in the federal penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kansas. He was represented by counsel of his own choosing at this trial; but on June 24, 1948, the sentence imposed upon him was held void by the> United States District Judge for the District of Kansas- in a habeas corpus - proceeding, on the ground that counsel were not present when sentence was…
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