John E. Kress v. United States

PER CURIAM;

Appellant - defendant, John Edgar Kress, pro se in this court, appeals from the denial of his 28 U.S.C.A. § 2255 motion to vacate and set aside his judgment of conviction, by guilty plea, of a violation of the Dyer Act, 18 U.S.C.A. § 2312. The grounds for appellant’s § 2255 motion are: (1) That his guilty plea was not voluntary and was accepted by the trial court in violation of Rule 11, Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure; and (2) that he was deprived of his Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of counsel.

The record indicates that on February 16, 1968, appellant was…