United States v. Eddie Lee Davis, A/K/A Big Daddy

TONE, Circuit Judge.

In this appeal from a judgment of conviction upon a plea of guilty, the defendant contends that there was no factual basis for his plea, as required by Rule 11, Fed.R.Crim.P., because he denied his guilt while persisting in his guilty plea. We affirm the judgment.

On the day trial was scheduled to begin on an indictment charging defendant Eddie Lee Davis with conspiracy to violate and a substantive violation of the Mann Act (18 U.S.C. § 2421), he appeared with his retained counsel and sought to withdraw his previously entered plea of not guilty and to enter a plea of…