Thomas Jefferson Shores v. United States

RIVES, Circuit Judge.

This appeal is from a judgment denying relief under a section 2255 (of Title 28 U.S.C.) motion without a hearing. Under that statute a hearing is necessary “unless the motion and the files and records of the case conclusively show that the prisoner is entitled to no relief.”

On June 11, 1963, an indictment was returned in the United States District Court of Kansas charging Shores, the present appellant, with transporting and causing to be transported in interstate commerce a falsely made, forged, altered and counterfeited security in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2314. On the…