Louis Vernon Cawley v. United States

This is appellant’s third appearance here. Convicted and sentenced in October, 1955, on an indictment in seven counts, charging a conspiracy to violate, and violations of, the Narcotics Laws of the United States, and sentenced to serve ten years in all, the defendant Cawley appealed, and the judgment was affirmed. Cawley v. United States, 5 Cir., 231 F.2d 650, 651.

Thereafter, he filed a motion under Section 2255, Title 28 U.S.C.A., to correct the conviction and judgment, alleging as grounds, among others, that the judgment wrongly imposed consecutive sentences on the conspiracy count and a…