Sam A. Johnson v. United States

JAMES M. CARTER, Circuit Judge:

This is an appeal from a denial of relief under 28 U.S.C. § 2255, following an evidentiary hearing. The sole question concerns the failure of the trial judge to advise appellant, at the time of his guilty pleas, that he might receive consecutive sentences on guilty pleas to second degree murder. We affirm.

Appellant, an Indian, was charged by indictment in three counts of the murder in December 1959, of three Indian girls on an Indian reservation.

The trial court found at the § 2255 hearing that he was represented by competent appointed counsel. Following plea…