Cornell Smith v. United States

This appeal is from the district court’s denial of the appellant’s motion to vacate his judgment and sentence, filed pursuant to 28 U.S.C.A. § 2255. We affirm.

On November 24, 1970 the appellant entered a plea of guilty to the offense of conspiracy to smuggle heroin into the United States, 21 U.S.C.A. § 174, and thereupon a sentence of five years was imposed. He now seeks to have that conviction set aside on the bases that the indictment did not allege facts sufficient to inform him of any overt act with which he was charged, and that he was entrapped by government officials to commit the…