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197 F.2d 334

Docket No. 14001.

Littlejohn v. Hiatt

Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals

Decided June 18, 1952.

Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals · decided 1952-06-18

Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently December 1978

3 federal appellate · 2 state decisions

2 counsel of record

Applies 18 U.S.C. § 1708

Relies on Lindsay v. United States

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Decided 1952-06-18

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¶1No appearance entered for appellant.

¶2J. Ellis Mundy, U. S. Atty., Harvey H. Tisinger, Asst. U. S. Atty., H. A. Stephens, Jr., Asst. U. S. Atty., Atlanta Ga. for appel-lee.

¶3*335Before HOLMES, BORAH, and RIVES, Circuit Judges.

¶4HOLMES, Circuit Judge.

¶5After waiving indictment and entering a plea of guilty to a criminal information charging him with the violation oí Section 1708, Title 18, United States Code, appellant was sentenced to imprisonment for five years. This appeal is from the denial of his petition for a writ of habeas corpus, in which petition he asserted the same grounds as had been asserted in his motion to vacate the sentence which was denied by the sentencing court

¶6The criminal information in question charged appellant with stealing from a mail box a letter containing a charge-a-plate of a value in excess of $100. Appellant contends that the charge-a-plate was, in fact, of a value less than $100, and that, under 18 U.S.C. § 1708, a sentence in excess of one year may not be imposed when the value of the thing taken is less than $100. He alleged that he has completed over one year of imprisonment, and asked that he be released from custody.

¶7By his plea of guilty, appellant admitted the facts alleged in the information. Lindsay v. U. S., 10 Cir., 134 F.2d 960, 962. He cannot now avail himself of a denial of those facts in an effort to secure his release, and the order appealed from is affirmed. Affirmed.

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