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BRAFFITH v. PEOPLE OF THE VIRGIN ISLANDS
    No. 3881
    Circuit Court of Appeals Third Circuit
    December 10, 1928
    
      See, also, 29 F.2d 740 (same opinion), and 1 V.I. 582 (26 F.2d 646)
    
    
      D. H. Jackson, Christiansted, St. Croix, Virgin Islands, for appellant
    
    James C. Fox, Christiansted, St. Croix, Virgin Islands, for the People
    
    Before Buffington, Woolley, and Davis, Circuit Judges
    
   PER CURIAM

This appeal under the laws of the Virgin Islands is compulsory. Braffith v. People of Virgin Islands (C.C.A.3d 1928) 1 V.I. 582, 26 F.2d 646. In view of the prisoner’s plea of guilty entered to a charge of murder in the first degree, our inquiry on this appeal has been directed, and limited, to a search for fundamental irregularities in the proceeding and to a possible abuse by the court of its discretion in determining the punishment. Braffith v. People of Virgin Islands, supra. On our review of the record, made with a care which the gravity of the case required, we found no errors of either kind.

The judgment must therefore be affirmed.