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PICKENS v. UNITED STATES

No. 27280.

427 F.2d 349 (1970)

Elmer B. PICKENS, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. UNITED STATES of America, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

June 3, 1970.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Elmer B. Pickens, pro se.

Joseph B. Gladden, Jr., Atlanta, Ga., for plaintiff-appellant.

R. Macey Taylor, Asst. U. S. Atty., Wayman G. Sherrer, U. S. Atty., Birmingham, Ala., for defendant-appellee.

Before SIMPSON, MORGAN and INGRAHAM, Circuit Judges.

PER CURIAM:

This is an appeal from an order of the District Court for the Northern District of Alabama denying petitioner Pickens' motion, filed pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2255, to vacate a life sentence imposed on him in 1936 upon a conviction entered after a plea of guilty for robbing a federally insured bank, assaulting the bank president, and forcing the bank president to accompany him from the bank after the robbery, all in violation of 12 U.S.C. § 588b...

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