Howard Lawrence Ramsey v. United States

This is an appeal from an order entered by United States District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri, denying appellant’s motion filed under 28 U.S.C.A. § 2255 to vacate a sentence previously imposed on him by that court, on the ground that the motion was prematurely instituted.

On November 4, 1963, appellant was arraigned in the Circuit Court of the City of St. Louis, Missouri, and charged with the offenses of “uttering a forged instrument” and “first degree robbery”.

Pursuant to a writ of habeas corpus, appellant was then removed, on November 4, 1963, from the St. Louis, Missouri,…