Young v. United States

Ike Young was convicted of murder and sentenced to life imprisonment. He was granted a new trial, 5 Cir., 97 F.2d 200, 117 A.L.R. 316; but was again convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment, and this conviction was on November 17, 1939, affirmed by this court, the evidence being specially adjudged sufficient to sustain the conviction. 5 Cir., 107 F.2d 490. On February 2, 1943, Young filed in the District Court what he styled a bill of review, which asserted that the sentence was illegal and beyond the court’s jurisdiction because there was no charge in the indictment that Young was…