Murrey v. United States

Harry (Peck) Murrey is imprisoned at Alcatraz under sentences imposed upon him by the federal district court in Arkansas in 1937 pursuant to his pleas of guilty to two indictments (Nos. 3803 and 3841) then pending against him in that court. In 1941 he filed a motion in the same court seeking to have the judgment of conviction and the sentence under one of the indictments (No. 3803) avoided and set aside, and after hearing had been had, the motion was denied. He attempted to obtain a review in this court of the judgment denying his motion, but although this court at first granted him leave to…