Setser v. Welch

This is an appeal from an order dismissing a petition for a writ of habeas corpus. Appellant, with one Marion J. Smith, was convicted in the District Court of the United States for the District of Columbia of the crimes of housebreaking and larceny; and the conviction was affirmed on appeal. Setser v. United States, 79 U.S.App.D.C. 400, 147 F.2d 158. He challenges the validity of the judgment and sentence under which he is held in custody on.the grounds (1) that he was without counsel at the time of the preliminary hearing and of the arraignment, (2) that counsel who represented him at the…