DAYTON v. UNITED STATES

No. 16702.

319 F.2d 742 (1963)

Dexter Churchill DAYTON, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES of America, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals District of Columbia Circuit.

Decided May 29, 1963.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Barry I. Fredericks, Asst. U. S. Atty., with whom Messrs. David C. Acheson, U. S. Atty., and Frank Q. Nebeker, Asst. U. S. Atty., were on the brief, submitted on the brief, for appellee.

Before EDGERTON, Senior Circuit Judge, and WRIGHT and McGOWAN, Circuit Judges.


PER CURIAM.

The appeal here is from the denial by the District Court of a second motion under 28 U.S.C. § 2255. It appears from the motion itself that appellant was first indicted for murder in the first degree in 1929; and that a second indictment was returned against him some six months later to which he entered a plea of guilty of murder in the second degree. Appellant asserts that this plea of guilty resulted from coercion brought to bear upon him during...

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