United States v. John Campbell

DUFFY, Circuit Judge.

On September 25, 1959, defendant ■Campbell filed a petition in the District Court to vacate a judgment and sentence which that Court had imposed on February 3, 1956. The Court denied the petition without hearing. Thereafter, Campbell filed a verified amended petition to vacate the judgment of conviction, setting forth a colloquy between himself and the trial court at the time of the taking of his plea of guilty. The Court again denied the petition without requiring the Government to answer or otherwise plead.

Defendant had been indicted on September 20, 1955, for violation…