Estes v. United States

BREWSTER, District Judge.

This proceeding involves a civil post-conviction motion seeking to vacate movant’s conviction in this Court on four counts alleging mail fraud and on one count charging conspiracy to commit mail fraud and the interstate transportation of fraudulent securities, and a motion for new trial in the criminal case itself on the ground of newly discovered evidence. The conviction was appealed and upheld. Estes v. United States, 5 Cir., 335 F.2d 609 (1964), cert. den. 379 U.S. 964, 85 S.Ct. 656, 13 L.Ed.2d 559, reh. den. 380 U.S. 926, 85 S.Ct. 884, 13 L.Ed. 2d 814. While there…