Willie Lee Knight v. United States

On November 22, 1954, the appellant filed in the lower court a motion to correct what he claimed to be illegal and excessive sentences in a proceeding under 28 U.S.C.A. § 2255. He contended that the United States attorney had failed to file an information of the kind prescribed in 26 U.S.C.A. § 2557(b) (l).in connection with the proceeding which established by his admission in open court a. prior narcotics conviction. The lower court denied this motion on December 17, 1954.

On January 22, 1958, appellant was sentenced to five years in prison for a narcotics violation under 26 U.S.C.A. §…