Edgar Fultz v. United States

McALLISTER, Senior Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from an order of the district court denying a petition to vacate a sentence of ten years’ imprisonment.

Edgar Fultz is a man to whom life has not been kind. He was born in a mining camp near Harlan, Kentucky, where his father was a coal miner and an alcoholic. Edgar was able to go only to the fifth grade. He is an illiterate. The record discloses little of his life because no testimony was taken before or after he pleaded guilty to taking money, by force and violence, from a federal bank in Louisville, Kentucky, in what appears from the record…