Burns v. United States

JOHN W. OLIVER, District Judge.

Petitioner, in a consolidated trial, was indicted, tried and convicted under the Federal Kidnapping Act, 18 United States Code § 1201, and the Mann Act, 18 United States Code § 2421, et seq. He is presently serving the life sentence imposed in connection with the kidnapping charge.

A “petition for writ of error coram nobis” now pends before this Court. That petition represents petitioner’s fifth post-conviction attack on his present sentence. 1

This Court’s denial on May 12, 1955 of petitioner’s fourth attack pursuant to Section 2255, Title 28 U.S.C. was affirmed…