TOWNES v. UNITED STATES

Nos. 10574, 10865, 10866.

371 F.2d 930 (1966)

Richard Sympol TOWNES, Jr., Appellant, v. UNITED STATES of America, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Fourth Circuit.

Decided December 27, 1966.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

No. 10,574.

Murray J. Janus, Richmond, Va., (Court-assigned counsel) (Bremner, Merhige, Byrne, Montgomery & Baber, Richmond, Va., on brief) for appellant.

Gerald L. Bass, Asst. U. S. Atty. (Robert H. Cowen, U. S. Atty., on brief), for appellee.

Nos. 10,865 and 10,866 submitted without argument.

Before BELL, WINTER and CRAVEN, Circuit Judges.


WINTER, Circuit Judge:

In this appeal from denial of post conviction relief sought under 28 U.S.C.A. § 2255, appellant who, without counsel, pleaded guilty to two single-count indictments for robbing two banks in 1963 (18 U.S.C.A. § 2113(a)), claims that he did not effectively waive his right to counsel and that he did not competently and intelligently enter his pleas of guilty. In part the arguments are related...

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