United States v. Shepherd

CONNOR, District Judge.

Invoking the provisions of Section 2255 of Title 28 United States Code, the respondent moved “to vacate ánd set aside an illegal judgment and sentence.”

Shepherd, on October 10, 1944, was indicted in this district on two counts, charging that he did falsely pretend to, be an officer acting under the authority of the United States, to wit, a Lieutenant in the United States Navy, and in'such pretended character did obtain, from certain persons, certain sums of money, in violation of Section 76 of Title 18 of United States Code, 1940 ed. 1 Thereafter, on October 17, he was…