Legal Opinion
United States v. Hayman
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided January 7, 1952No. 23PublishedCited by 1,023 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Vinson
In its 19.48 revision of the Judicial Code, Congress provided that prisoners in custody under sentence of a fe'd eral court may move the sentencing court ot “Vacate, set aside or correct any sentence subject to collateral attack. 28 U. S. C. (Supp. IV) § 2255.
Respondent, confined, at the McNeil Island penitentiary in the Western District of Washington, 2 invoked this new procedure by filing a motion to vacate his sentence and grant a new trial in the District Court for the Southern District of California. That court had imposed a sentence of twenty years’ imprisonment in 1947 for forging…
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