Charles Patterson, Jr. v. United States

MURRAH, Chief Judge.

In this motion under 28 U.S.C. § 2255, the petitioner attacks his judgment and sentence on a narcotics charge for the legal insufficiency of the indictment. The trial court held the indictment legally sufficient and dismissed the motion without a hearing. We sustain the order of dismissal.

The petitioner contends that the indictment did not sufficiently apprise him of the nature of the offenses charged so that he could properly prepare a defense, nor was it sufficient to enable him to plead the judgment as a bar to any future proceedings which might be brought against him…