United States of America Ex Rel. Albert R. House, Relator v. Edwin L. Swope, Warden, United States Penitentiary, Alcatraz, California

The Supreme Court vacated our former judgment 1 and remanded the case to this Court “for consideration in light of new information.” 2 Surmising, as best we can, the basis for the Supreme Court’s judgment, we apprehend that, in its opinion, appellant’s original motion 3 brought his case within the ruling of Mooney v. Holohan, 294 U.S. 103, 112, 55 S.Ct. 340, 79 L.Ed. 791, 4 and that the judgment of conviction is subject to collateral attack on the grounds charged in the motion, in effect, that it was procured because appellant’s codefendant Henderson 5 was coerced by a Government agent to…