Court Opinion

ID: 9644387
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-22 20:54:49.760057+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:11:12.815426
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STONE, Circuit Judge
(concurring).
I c’oncur fully in the opinion of Judge Johnsen. Because the dissenting opinion *653is based upon double jeopardy, it seems in place to state my views as to that. As matter of authority, the dissent is based upon In re Bradley, 318 U.S. 50, 63 S.Ct. 470, 471, 87 L.Ed. —, which follows Ex parte Lange, 18 Wall. 163, 21 L.Ed. 872. Each of those cases involved precisely the same situation, namely, sentence both of fine and imprisonment had been imposed under statutes limiting punishment to fine or imprisonment and, after accused had paid the imposed fine, the trial court endeavored to resentence to imprisonment only. Even as applied to the precise situation in the Lange case, the Chief Justice, in the Bradley case, dissented stating he thought the authority of the Lange case “should be reexamined and rejected.” However, my interest is in the application of the doctrine of the Lange and Bradley cases to a different situation, such as here present.
In Holiday v. Johnston, 313 U.S. 342, 550, 61 S.Ct. 1015, 1017, 85 L.Ed. 1392, where this very bank robbery statute was involved, the Court stated: “The erroneous imposition of two sentences for a single offense of which the accused has been convicted, or as to which he has pleaded guilty, does not constitute double jeopardy.” 313 U.S. at page 349, 550, 61 S.Ct. at page 1017, 85 L.Ed. 1392. Also, it is significant that the Courts of Appeals, in determining diposition of void sentences on other than the situation (statutory alternative sentences) in the Lange case, have never considered that case as applicable. Bryant v. United States, 8 Cir., 214 F. 51; Miller v. United States, 5 Cir., 128 F.2d 519; McCleary v. Hudspeth, 10 Cir., 124 F.2d 445; King v. United States, 69 App.D.C. 10, 98 F.2d 291; Copeland v. Archer, 9 Cir., 50 F.2d 836; Hammers v. United States, 5 Cir., 279 F. 265, and see Mitchell v. Youell, 4 Cir., 130 F.2d 880, 882; United States v. Greenhaus, 2 Cir., 85 F.2d 116, 118, 107 A.L.R. 630, certiorari denied 299 U.S. 596, 57 S.Ct. 192, 81 L.Ed. 439; and Thompson v. United States, 9 Cir., 204 F. 973.