Pawley

Appellant was indicted for violation of section 350 of the Penal Code (18USCA § 264). The indictment charges that appellant “did knowingly, wilfully, unlawfully and feloniously have in his possession seven (7) film negatives in the likeness and similitude as to the designs and inscriptions thereon of plates designed for the printing of obligations and securities of the United States,” with intent to use such film negatives and to suffer the same to be used in forging and counterfeiting certain obligations of the United States, to wit: $20 national bank notes, $5 United States notes, and $5 and $20 notes.

The record presents an anomalous situation. The verdict of guilty was returned into court on February 3, 1934, and on that date ax>po31ant was sentenced to imprisonment in a federal penitentiary, to be thereafter designated, for a term and period of three years. On February 23, 1934, appellant filed his petition for appeal and assignments of error and later filed his proposed bill of exceptions. On May 26, 1934, the government filed its proposed amendments to the bill of exceptions so filed by appellant. So far as the record shows, nothing further was done by appellant, and on…