Joseph F. Bent, Jr. v. United States

Joseph F. Bent, Jr., now an inmate of Leavenworth, appeals in forma pauperis from an order denying his motion under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 “to vacate judgments,, convictions and sentences”.

The appellant’s federal judicial history must be recited:

1. In May 1946 a 3-eount indictment was returned in the Western District of' Missouri against Bent, then 18 years, of age, William Amos Jones, and Bent’s-cousin, Thomas Andrew Collins, for violations of 18 U.S.C. (1940 Ed.) § 320-(now 18 U.S.C. § 2114). Count I charged Bent and Jones with robbery of' a clerk in charge of a substation of the-Kansas City,…