United States v. Sanders

THOMSEN, Chief Judge.

Hilliard Sanders, convicted of bank robbery by a jury in this court and sentenced by Judge Chesnut in 1942 to twenty years imprisonment, has made application for relief under 28 U.S.C.A. §§ 1651 and 2255. A similar motion was heard and denied by Judge Chesnut in 1950, D.C., 92 F.Supp. 447, affirmed Sanders v. United States, 4 Cir., 183 F.2d 748. Judge Chesnut had previously denied release under a writ of habeas corpus in 1944, Sanders v. Brady, D.C., 57 F.Supp. 87, and other courts have considered various proceedings brought by Sanders either attacking the proceedings in…