TURNER v. UNITED STATES

No. 16074.

262 F.2d 643 (1959)

Curtis TURNER, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES of America, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Eighth Circuit.

January 28, 1959.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Curtis Turner, pro se, submitted briefs.

Edward L. Scheufler, U. S. Atty., and Horace Warren Kimbrell, Asst. U. S. Atty., Kansas City, Mo., submitted brief for appellee.

Before GARDNER, Chief Judge, and WOODROUGH and VAN OOSTERHOUT, Circuit Judges.


WOODROUGH, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal, in forma pauperis by a prisoner in the Leavenworth penitentiary, from the denial of a motion filed pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2255, alleging that appellant's conviction was secured upon evidence establishing entrapment, which, as a matter of law, entitled him to acquittal and that the sentence should therefore be vacated.

Appellant was charged in six counts of an indictment with violations of the narcotic laws...

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