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TWO YEARS SENTENCE AND FINE NEW YORK, N. Y., June 20.— Former J Federal Judge Martin T. Manton was sentenced to two years in prison and fined 0,-i 000 for selling his decisions while on the | bench. Sentence followed a personal plea j made to the court by the ex-federal justice, I who submitted his resignation to President I Roosevelt under the combined fire of District Attorney Thomas E. Dewey and Attorney General Frank Murphy. His voice level, his posture erect, Manton at the outset of his plea protested his innocence of any wrongdoing. His troubles he laid to a hostile press. Vigorously he attacked witnesses for I the state as "bribe givers" and charged that the court had accepted testimony without corroboration.
