Clay Marlette, Appellant, v. United States of America, Appellee, 249 F.2d 95 (4th Cir. 1957)

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U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit - 249 F.2d 95 (4th Cir. 1957) 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.

PER CURIAM.


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.

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