Leonard Williams v. United States

The major contention of appellant raised on this appeal from a perjury conviction and judgment imposing a sentence of five years imprisonment is that .appellant was denied a fair trial because the indictment charging perjury put before the jury that appellant had been convicted “upon his plea of guilty * * * to a charge of violating Sections 2113(a) and (d) of Title 18, United States Code * * *”

Appellant had petitioned the District Court for a hearing under 28 U.S.C.A. § 2255 for the purpose of putting on evidence to establish that his plea of guilty to attempted bank robbery in violation of…