Robert Louis Bone v. United States

This is an appeal from a denial on its face of a motion by appellant, under 28 U.S.C.A. § 2255, to have his sentence-vacated. The District Court permitted appellant to file a Notice of Appeal without payment of fee but denied him leave to proceed further in forma pauperis, holding that his appeal was frivolous, in that it presented “no matters of substance.”

Appellant’s sentence was one imposed on a plea of guilty by him to a charge-under 18 U.S.C. § 2114 of having robbed a clerk in a United States Post Office Contract Station of funds belonging to the United States, while putting the life of…