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184 F.2d 573

Docket No. 14135.

Phillips v. United States

Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals

Decided Oct. 24, 1950.

Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals · decided 1950-10-24

Cited by 1 later decisions — most recently October 1950

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2 counsel of record

Relies on United States v. Daugherty · Buie v. King · Nivens v. United States

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Opinion by (per_curiam) · Decided 1950-10-24

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¶1Appellant submitted brief pro sc, and Robert W. Copeland, Tacoma, Wash, (appointed by the Court) submitted brief for appellant.

¶2Sam M. Wear, United States Attorney, Kansas City, Mo., and William Aull III, Assistant United States Attorney, Lexington, Mo., submitted brief for appellee.

¶3Before SANBORN and THOMAS, Circuit Judges, and DEWEY, District Judge.

¶4PER CURIAM.

¶5This is an appeal from an order denying the motion of the appellant for the correction of a sentence imposed upon him on February 11, 1949, as the result of his waiving prosecution by indictment and pleading guilty to an information. The information contained five counts, each of which charged a separate violation of the National Motor Vehicle Theft Act, § 2312, Title 18 U.S.C.A.

¶6The sentence, so far as pertinent, reads as follows: “It Is Adjudged that the defendant is hereby committed to the custody of the Attorney General or his authorized representative for imprisonment for a period of one (1) year and one (1) day on each of counts 1, 3 and 4, and for a period of three (3) years on each of counts 2 and 5, the sentences imposed to be served consecutively, for a total of nine (9) years and three (3) days, without costs.”

¶7The appellant asserts that the sentence is so uncertain and indefinite as to the order in which the terms of imprisonment are to be served that they must be construed to run concurrently and are in legal effect a single term of three years.

¶8We agree with the District Court that the sentence imposed upon the appellant was not uncertain, and that the terms of imprisonment run consecutively in the or*574der in which the counts upon which they are based appear in the information. See United States v. Daugherty, 269 U.S. 360, 46 S.Ct. 156, 70 L.Ed. 309; Nivens v. United States, 5 Cir., 139 F.2d 226, 227; Buie v. King, 8 Cir., 137 F.2d 495, 499. The order appealed from is affirmed.

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