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Marlette v. United States

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit
Oct 18, 1957
249 F.2d 95 (4th Cir. 1957)

Opinion

No. 7476.

Argued October 7, 1957.

Decided October 18, 1957.

Clay Marlette, pro se.

Robert L. Gavin, Asst. U.S. Atty., Greensboro, N.C. (Edwin M. Stanley, U.S. Atty., and H. Vernon Hart, Asst. U.S. Atty., Greensboro, N.C., on the brief), for appellee.

Before PARKER, Chief Judge, and SOPER and HAYNSWORTH, Circuit Judges.


This is another appeal from the denial of a motion under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 to set aside a sentence of imprisonment by the same prisoner who brought the appeal in Marlette v. United States, 4 Cir., 237 F.2d 228. The point here presented is the same as that presented by the former appeal and nothing need be added to what was there said. There is nothing uncertain about the sentence, as argued by appellant; and, as we pointed out in our opinion in the former appeal, a general sentence of ten years would be upheld, where there was a plea of guilty to four counts of an indictment, each of which warranted a five year sentence, or a total of twenty years for the four counts. See, also, Hamilton v. United States, 4 Cir., 204 F.2d 927, 928; Neely v. United States, 4 Cir., 2 F.2d 849.

Affirmed.


Summaries of

Marlette v. United States

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit
Oct 18, 1957
249 F.2d 95 (4th Cir. 1957)
Case details for

Marlette v. United States

Case Details

Full title:Clay MARLETTE, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES of America, Appellee

Court:United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit

Date published: Oct 18, 1957

Citations

249 F.2d 95 (4th Cir. 1957)

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