Carl Close v. United States

DONALD RUSSELL, Circuit Judge:

Convicted, along with two co-defendants, in the District Court of Maryland, in 1949, on two charges of armed bank robbery 1 and a third charge of interstate transportation of stolen property, 2 the appellant received sentences of fifteen and twenty years, to be served consecutively, on the two armed bank robbery charges and one of five years on the third charge, to be served concurrently with his sentence on the first armed robbery charge. Subsequent to commencing his sentence, he filed two applications for relief under Section 2255. Both applications were denied…