Hunilda Balbas Gardiner v. United States

Hunilda Baibas Gardiner appeals from the denial by Judge Connally of the Southern District of Texas, after a plenary hearing under § 2255, of her motion to vacate sentence and for a new trial. At a joint trial she and her husband and others were convicted of conspiracy to violate the Narcotics Laws. The convictions of both were affirmed by this Court, Gardiner v. United States, 5 Cir., 1963, 321 F.2d 159, cert. denied, 375 U.S. 953, 84 S.Ct. 445, 11 L.Ed.2d 314, as was true of the convictions of several of their co-conspirators. Curtis v. United States, 5 Cir., 1961, 297 F.2d 639, cert.…