United States v. White

HOLTZOFF, District Judge.

This is a motion submitted by the defendant in propria persona on August 26, 1957, to vacate and set aside a sentence imposed on him by this court on March 6, 1953, on a charge of murder in the second degree. The motion is made under 28 U.S.C. § 2255. 1

On August 8, 1952, the defendant in connection with robbing one Ralph T. Blake, brutally beat him to death. He was indicted on a charge of murder in the first degree on September 8, 1952. The case came on to trial on January 27, 1953. Ordinarily a homicide committed in the course of a perpetration of a robbery…