Joseph E. Wilkins v. United States

PRETTYMAN, Circuit Judge.

Appellant was indicted for violation of the narcotics laws. At trial he withdrew his original plea of not guilty and entered a plea of guilty to two counts of a seven-count indictment. These two counts involved the sale, and the remaining counts the possession, of narcotics. Appellant was sentenced on June 18, 1954. Two and a half years later, on February 13, 1957, he filed a motion to vacate sentence pursuant to Section 2255, Title 28, of the United States Code, alleging that through “subterfuge” of dilatory and ineffective counsel he had been induced to plead…