Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit September 25, 1981, 80-3671 (United States v. James Ralph Long)

ALVIN B. RUBIN, Circuit Judge:

The defendant was convicted of a crime for which life imprisonment was mandatory. The term of a sentence, however, is not the only decision to be made in sentencing a person convicted of crime. Because the trial judge sentenced the defendant to a term of life imprisonment without, as Fed.R. Crim.P.