Francis J. Hilderbrand v. United States

The appeal is from an order of the court below, denying appellant’s petition for a writ of error coram nobis which sought to vacate and set aside the judgment and sentence entered upon his plea of guilty to an indictment. The petition for writ of error coram nobis may properly be treated as a motion to vacate the judgment and sentence under 28 U.S. C.A. § 2255. Stephens v. United States, 10 Cir., 246 F.2d 607; Bell v. United States, 9 Cir., 269 F.2d 419.

In 1952 appellant was indicted in the United States District Court for the Western District of Washington on a charge of murder in the first…