OLIPHANT v. UNITED STATES

No. 17213.

315 F.2d 814 (1963)

William Wesley OLIPHANT, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES of America, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Eighth Circuit.

April 17, 1963.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William Wesley Oliphant, No. 64665 is incarcerated in the U. S. Penitentiary, and filed typewritten brief.

F. Russell Millin, U. S. Atty., Kansas City, Mo., and Clifford M. Spottsville, Asst. U. S. Atty., filed brief of appellee.

Before SANBORN and BLACKMUN, Circuit Judges, and STEPHENSON, District Judge.


SANBORN, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal in forma pauperis by William Wesley Oliphant, an inmate of the United States Penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kansas, from an order denying his motion under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 for the vacation of the sentence he is presently serving. The sentence, which was twenty years' imprisonment, was imposed on January 15, 1948, by the District Court, upon the defendant's waiver of indictment and his entry of a plea of guilty to an information...

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