LOUDERBACK, District Judge.
The petitioner, a prisoner in the United States Penitentiary at Alcatraz, California, plead guilty to a charge of theft of Government property, 18 U.S.C.A. § 100, and on April 16, 1938, was sentenced by the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, Northern Division, to imprisonment in a penitentiary for ten years. The maximum sentence possible under the statute was five years.
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