Martyn v. United States

This appeal in forma pauperis is from an order of th'e District Court overruling a motion of the defendant (appellant) to vacate a sentence of imprisonment imposed upon him on July 24, 1947.

By an information filed June 30, 1947 (with the defendant’s consent), the defendant was charged, in twenty-three counts, with transporting in interstate commerce twenty-three “falsely made” checks, for varying amounts, “purportedly drawn on the account of Lester S. Martyn at the Traders Gate City National Bank in Kansas City, Missouri,” in violation of § 3 of the National Stolen Property Act as amended, 48…