CLAY MARLETTE, APPELLANT,
v.
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, APPELLEE

4th Cir. | 1956-10-03
No. 7252
Before PARKER, Chief Judge, SOBELOFF, Circuit Judge, and BRYAN, District Judge.
237 F.2d 228 United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit (1956) Positive Treatment
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Opinion of the Court
PER CURIAM.

PER CURIAM.

This is an appeal from an order denying a motion under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 to vacate and set aside a sentence of imprisonment. Appellant had pleaded guilty to four counts of an indictment charging conspiracy to violate the narcotic laws and substantive offenses in violation thereof. He was subject to a sentence of five years’ imprisonment under each of the counts to which he pleaded guilty or a total of twenty years. He was given a general sentence of ten yeai-s on all the counts-and it is of this that he complains in the motion made under 28 U.S.C. § 2255; but the imposition of such sentence was unquestionably within the power of the trial judge. As said by this, court in Hamilton v. United States, 4 Cir., 204 F. 2d 927, 928: “Appellant complains of the sentence because under a plea of guilty entered to several counts of an indictment the court imposed a sentence longer than might have been imposed under any one of the counts but less than the aggregate of the sentences that might have been imposed under all of them. This was unquestionably proper. Neely v. United States, 4 Cir., 2 F. 2d 849.”

Affirmed.


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