SMITH v. UNITED STATES

No. 16068.

238 F.2d 925 (1956)

Johnny Ray SMITH, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES of America, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

November 27, 1956.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William B. Moore, Jr., Montgomery, Ala., for appellant.

Hartwell Davis, Robert E. Varner, Asst. U.S. Attys., Montgomery, Ala., for appellee.

Before HUTCHESON, Chief Judge, and RIVES and BROWN, Circuit Judges.


HUTCHESON, Chief Judge.

This is the appellant's second appearance in this court in support of his efforts to obtain Sec. 22551 relief from a sentence of thirty years imposed on him on November 21, 1949, on his plea of guilty to an information2 charging him with violation of the Kidnapping Act, Sec. 1201(a), Title 18 U.S.C.

When he was first here in propria persona, the appeal was from an order denying...

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