United States v. Mignogna

SWAN, Circuit Judge.

The appellant stands convicted upon a plea of guilty under an indictment charging that he and an accomplice stole a very large quantity of gasoline ration coupons belonging to the United States, contrary to 18 U.S.G.A. § 99. He was sentenced to a long term of imprisonment on April 22, 1943 and nearly seven months thereafter he brought on a motion for vacation of the sentence, withdrawal of his plea, and restoration of the cause to the trial calendar. The ground of his motion was that his plea was coerced by reason of his having been held in “maximum confinement” at the…