Deese v. United States

OPINION AND ORDER

DONALD RUSSELL, District Judge.

This proceeding, under Section 2255, 28 U.S.C., by a federal petitioner, serving a twenty-three year sentence imposed by this Court at Columbia, on October 26, 1959, following a guilty plea to a charge of armed bank robbery (Sections 2113(a) and 2113(d), 18 U.S.C.) seeks the vacation of a plea of guilty as entered involuntarily and without his understanding or consent.

Counsel was appointed for him and a full evidentiary hearing had on August 25, 1969, in Spartanburg, South Carolina.1

At the time of his arraignment on this charge, the petitioner…