WALEY v. UNITED STATES

No. 14872.

233 F.2d 804 (1956)

Harmon Metz WALEY, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES of America, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Ninth Circuit.

May 22, 1956.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Harmon Metz Waley, in pro. per.

Charles P. Moriarty, U. S. Atty., Seattle, Wash., Guy A. B. Dovell, Asst. U. S. Atty., Tacoma, Wash., for appellee.

Before DENMAN, Chief Judge, and STEPHENS and POPE, Circuit Judges.


DENMAN, Chief Judge.

This is an appeal from the denial of a motion to vacate sentence made under the provisions of 28 U.S.C. § 2255. Waley, who entered a plea of guilty to violating the federal kidnaping statute in 1935,1 contends that his plea was entered without an understanding of the charge and that he was entitled to a trial by jury.

Waley first argues that the attorney who, the record indicates, was assigned by the trial...

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