Conley v. Pescor

REEVES, District Judge.

On December 13, 1943, the Court of Appeals, in Conley v. Cox, 8 Cir., 138 F.2d 786, reversed the above case and remanded it for a new trial upon the sole ground that the application for writ of habeas corpus contained an averment that the petitioner had been coerced by one Brenton S. Gordon, an agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, to enter a plea of guilty “to the charge of illegally wearing a United States naval officer’s uniform.” Previous to that the court had found that the conviction against which the petitioner complained was on two counts, for forging…