Legal Opinion
Charles Benton Russell v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided August 3, 1962No. 17477_1PublishedCited by 62 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HAMLEY, Circuit Judge.
Charles Benton Russell appeals from an .order denying a motion, made under 28 U.S.C. § 2255, to vacate a three-year sentence imposed by a court of the United States. The sentence in question was entered following Russell’s conviction, on a plea of guilty, of possessing firearms which he had unlawfully, wilfully and knowingly failed to register with the Collector of Internal Revenue. 1 It was stated in the information charging the offense that this constituted a violation of 26 U.S.C. § 5851.
In his section 2255 motion Russell asserted that the conviction was actually…
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- Ullmann v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1956
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