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31 F.2d 982

Docket No. 8342.

Adams v. White

Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals

Decided March 29, 1929.

Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals · decided 1929-03-29

2 counsel of record

Relies on Morgan v. Devine · United States v. Daugherty · Howard v. Moyer

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Opinion by Joseph William Woodrough · Decided 1929-03-29

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¶1Frans E. Lindquist, of Kansas City, Mo., for appellant.

¶2Max’lin S. Casey, Asst. U.' S. Atty., of Topeka, Kan. (Al P. Williams, U. S. Atty., and L. E. Wyman, Asst. U. S. Atty., both of Topeka, Kan., on the brief), for appellee.

¶3Before LEWIS, Circuit Judge, and WOODROUGH, District Judge.

¶4WOODROUGH, District Judge.

¶5The 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 now and has been since February 11, 1924, confined pursuant to the sentence. His claim is that the part of his sentence which is in excess of the maximum five years that could have been imposed under the burglarizing count is void.

¶6The contention is without merit. It is well settled that, although committed at the same time, the two offenses were distinct, and both penalties were applicable. Morgan v. Devine, 237 U. S. 632, 35 S. Ct. 712, 59 L. Ed. 1153. The single sentence, which did not exceed the maximum penalties that could be imposed, is valid. Myers v. Morgan (C. C. A.) 224 P. 413; Donegan v. Snook (D. C.) 6 F.(2d) 640; Howard v. Moyer (D. C.) 206 F. 555; Blake v. Moyer (C. C. A.) 208 F. 678.

¶7The ease of U. S. v. Daugherty, 269 U. S. 360, 46 S. Ct. 156, 70 L. Ed. 309, relied upon by petitioner, turned merely upon the interpretation of a sentence claimed to be ambiguous, and has no application.

¶8The judgment of the-trial court, denying the writ of habeas corpus, should be affirmed; and it is so ordered.

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