Carl Earnest McCraw v. United States

In 1958 the appellant was convicted on his plea of guilty under two counts of an indictment charging violation of Title 18 U.S.C. § 2312, interstate transportation of two stolen motor vehicles. The sentence fixed his term of imprisonment as follows: “Four years on Count 1 and four years on Count 2. It is further ordered that these counts are to run consecutively to each other and consecutive to any term of imprisonment now pending elsewhere.” In 1962 petitioner filed in the court below a petition pursuant to Title 28 U.S.C. § 2255 asking that his sentence be set aside on the ground that fraud…