ERWIN v. SANFORD

No. 1500.

27 F.Supp. 892 (1939)

ERWIN v. SANFORD, Warden.

District Court, N. D. Georgia, Atlanta Division.

June 9, 1939.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Leo Irwin, in pro. per.

Lawrence S. Camp, U. S. Atty., and Harvey H. Tisinger and J. Ellis Mundy, Asst. U. S. Attys., all of Atlanta, Ga., for respondent.


UNDERWOOD, District Judge.

The petition in this case presents three grounds for a writ of habeas corpus. First it is alleged that the indictment does not set out a Federal offense. There is no merit in this ground. Aderhold v. Hugart, 5 Cir., 67 F.2d 247, certiorari denied 291 U.S. 676, 54 S.Ct. 528, 78 L.Ed. 1065.

The second ground for the writ alleges that the plea of guilty entered by petitioner was coerced. From the evidence...

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