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MORTON v. UNITED STATES

No. 12824.

229 F.2d 793 (1955)

John W. MORTON, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES of America, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals District of Columbia Circuit.

Decided December 8, 1955.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Appellant filed a brief, pro se, and his case was treated as submitted thereon.

Mr. John W. Kern, III, Asst. U. S. Atty., with whom Mr. Leo A. Rover, U. S. Atty., and Messrs. Lewis Carroll and Edward O. Fennell, Asst. U. S. Attys., were on the brief, for appellee.

Before PRETTYMAN, WILBUR K. MILLER, and WASHINGTON, Circuit Judges.

PER CURIAM.

Appellant was convicted in 1943 — twelve years ago — of murder in the second degree. This court affirmed.1 Since then he has filed petitions for habeas corpus in the Eastern District of Virginia2 and the Western District of Missouri,3 and this is the ninth motion to vacate sentence4 which he has filed in this jurisdiction...

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