Arthur Pruitt v. United States

This appeal is from an order of the District Court denying appellant’s motion to vacate sentence filed under Title 28, Sec. 2255, U.S.C.

Appellant had entered a plea of guilty in the District Court to an indictment charging that he did possess a firearm which was not registered according to law in violation of Title 26, Sections 5851 and 5861, U.S.C. He was sentenced to imprisonment for three years and ten months.

Pruitt claims that when he entered his plea of guilty, he was unaware that the section of the Code providing for registration of firearms (Title 26 U.S.C., § 5841) had been declared…