Wilson v. United States

MICHIE, District Judge.

L. C. Wilson, a prisoner in the Federal Penitentiary in Atlanta, has filed a “motion for plenary hearing” which concludes with the request that the court determine why the petitioner should not be discharged forthwith from further illegal imprisonment and may be construed either as a petition for a writ of habeas corpus or a motion under 28 U.S. C. § 2255. He had been charged with kidnapping a Mr. and Mrs. Dickens and with raping Mrs. Dickens.

Mr. Wilson’s first point is “whether the official transcript shows that the petitioner was in fact denied counsel of his own…