SMITH v. UNITED STATES

No. 15730.

338 F.2d 996 (1964)

Robert William SMITH, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. UNITED STATES of America, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Sixth Circuit.

November 17, 1964.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John A. Bechtold (Court Appointed), Cincinnati, Ohio, for appellant.

Boyce F. Martin, Jr., Louisville, Ky., William E. Scent, U. S. Atty., John E. Stout, Asst. U. S. Atty., Louisville, Ky., on brief, for appellee.

Before WEICK, Chief Judge, EDWARDS, Circuit Judge, and GRAY, District Judge.


PER CURIAM.

Plaintiff-appellant had pled guilty to five counts of an indictment alleging sale and possession of marihuana and was sentenced to concurrent terms which produced a sentence of five years.

More than a year after sentence, plaintiff filed a motion to withdraw his plea of guilty to a "void indictment." The District Judge construed this as a motion to vacate sentence under Title 28, U.S.C. § 2255 filed on the ground that the two sale counts of...

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