Carter v. United States

BRATTON, Circuit Judge.

An indictment was returned in the United States Court for Kansas, charging that on or about June 13, 1946, on lands acquired for the use of the United States and under the exclusive jurisdiction of the United States, Frank Carter with premeditation stabbed and murdered Fernando Cervantes. The defendant entered :a plea of guilty to murder in the second degree and was sentenced to imprisonment for a period of forty years. The defendant subsequently filed in the case a “motion for relief from judgment” in which he sought to have the judgment and sentence vacated. The…