Reid v. United States

The appellant was convicted and sentenced in the Western District of Louisiana on March 19, 1943, and appealed to this court where the judgment was affirmed, Reid v. United States, 5 Cir., 136 F.2d 476. He entered upon his sentence which has now almost expired. Desiring to clear his name, as well as to be released, he filed on October 20, 1944, in the District Court of his conviction a motion, styled in the nature of a coram nobis, to set aside and vacate the judgment because founded on fraudulent and false testimony. By affidavits and by documentary evidence he seeks to prove that he was not…