Nathaniel Hawthorne Williams v. United States

The appeal is from an order entered, without an evidentiary hearing, upon a post trial motion filed by appellant, which motion was considered by the court as one filed pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2255.

The allegations of the motion may be summarized as an attack upon the sufficiency of the evidence to support the jury verdict of guilty rendered against appellant in a previously tried criminal case. It clearly constitutes a collateral attack upon the judgment of conviction and does not constitute sufficient grounds for relief under § 2255. 1

Appellant’s brief raises the question of an attempt by him…