Lucas v. United States

This is an appeal from an order refusing to vacate a judgment sentencing one Cecil S. Lucas to five years imprisonment, on a plea of guilty to an indictment charging him with aiding and abetting federal prisoners to escape, in violation of Title 18, U.S.C.A. §§ 550 and 753h. Lucas was given this sentence on July 23, 1943. It was to begin upon the expiration of another five year sentence imposed at the same time for violation of the Motor Vehicle Theft Act, 18 U.S.C.A. § 408. He was incarcerated in Alcatraz prison; and in December, 1945, more than two years later, he moved in the court below…