Robert Melvin Mayes v. George W. Pickett, Warden

OPINION

Before WRIGHT, KILKENNY and TRASK, Circuit Judges. KILKENNY, Circuit Judge:

Mayes appeals from a district court order denying, without a hearing, his motion for relief under 28 U.S.C. § 2255.

On May 28,1969, appellant pleaded guilty under one count of bank robbery. Two additional counts of bank robbery were dismissed. He was then sentenced to fifteen years in prison. No direct appeal was taken. Two previous § 2255 motions were filed and both denied without hearing. No appeal was taken from the denial of the first motion. After- the second denial, an appeal was taken, but dismissed under…