Carl Jess Hanson v. United States

McNICHOLS, District Judge:

This is an action by Carl Jess Hanson, a federal prisoner, for vacation of sentence under the provisions of 28 U.S.C. § 2255 (hereinafter referred to as § 2255). The District Court denied the motion without hearing and this appeal followed. We affirm.

The single ground relied on by the appellant in his petition for relief under § 2255, as filed in the court below, was that he “was mentally incompetent at the time of arraignment, pleading and sentence.”

The record discloses the following factual and procedural picture:

The appellant was indicted on January 6, 1965, on…