Supreme Court of the United States December 4, 1916, 11, Original (Ex Parte United States)

Mr: Chief Justice White

delivered the opinion of the court.

The accused pleading, guilty to an indictment charging him in several counts with embezzling the money of a national bank of which he was an officer and making false entries in its books in violation of § 5209, Revised Statutes, was sentenced to imprisonment in the penitentiary for five years, the shortest term which under the statute