William Henry Grimes v. United States

BARNES, Circuit Judge:

This appeal was noticed to be heard on January 18, 1968. On that date it was ordered to be submitted when the Reporter’s Transcript of testimony given at the trial had been filed. That transcript has now been filed.

Appellant was convicted by a jury on two counts of bank robbery. 18 U.S.C. §§ 3, 2113(a) (1964). No appeal was taken from his ten- and twenty-year concurrent sentences.

Over sixteen months later appellant, in propria persona, moved to vacate his conviction under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 (1964), charging (insofar as is relevant here) (1) that he had b( n convicted on…