Hodges v. United States

We brought this case here upon the understanding that the question it presented was whether the District Court should have accorded petitioner a hearing under 28 U. S. C. § 2255 when it appeared that no appeal had been perfected from the original judgment of conviction. After a thorough review of the full record, made possible after the case was briefed and argued on the merits, we have concluded that the petition for certiorari was improvidently granted. The record shows that the District Court did in fact conduct a hearing upon the petitioner’s § 2255 motion, 156 F. Supp. 313, but that, the *140…