ARTHUR v. UNITED STATES

No. 15803.

230 F.2d 666 (1956)

Thomas Nelson ARTHUR, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES of America, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

March 16, 1956.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas Nelson Arthur, in pro. per.

Frank M. Johnson, Jr., U. S. Atty., Leon J. Hopper, Asst. U. S. Atty., Atley A. Kitchings, U. S. Atty., Birmingham, for appellee.

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


HUTCHESON, Chief Judge.

Convicted upon a trial by jury and sentenced to three years penal servitude for violations of Title 18, Sections 702 and 912, defendant did not appeal. Thereafter he filed in the court of his conviction a motion, under Section 2255, Title 28 U.S.C., to vacate the sentence.

Briefly stated the purported grounds were: (1) the incompetence of court appointed counsel, and that he was appointed only fifteen minutes before the trial and was...

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