Joseph Kenneth Williams v. United States

HAMLEY, Circuit Judge.

Joseph Kenneth Williams appeals from an order denying a motion, made under 28 U.S.C. § 2255, to set aside concur rent sentences imposed by a court of the United States. The sentences were imposed on April 28,1960, following Williams’ conviction, after a jury trial, on charges growing out of a bank robbery at Fairchild Air Force Base, near Spokane, Washington, on December 3, 1959. Two of the concurrent sentences were for twenty years and the third was for five years.

Appellant specifies as error the failure of the district court to grant him a hearing before disposing of…