Alphonse v. Castaldi v. United States

This is an appeal by Alphonse V. Castaldi, hereinafter called defendant, from order denying his 28 U.S.C.A. § 2255 motion to vacate sentence without according him an evidentiary hearing.

Defendant and Drummond were charged in Count One of an indictment with •counterfeiting a federal reserve note and in Count Three with conspiracy together and with J. P. Long, Jr., to commit .such counterfeiting offense. Drummond alone was charged in Count Two with making a plate in the likeness of the note. Defendant and Drummond were .jointly tried to a jury. Drummond was convicted on all three counts.…