Charles Woodrow Burns v. United States

YOUNG, District Judge.

This is an appeal from an order of the U. S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri overruling appellant’s petition for writ of error coram nobis. Appellant was indicted under the Federal Kidnapping Act, 18 U.S.C. § 1201, and the Mann Act, 18 U.S.C. § 2421. In a consolidated trial appellant was convicted on both charges and was sentenced December 17, 1952 to life imprisonment. The present appeal represents the fifth post conviction attack on appellant’s present sentence. The lower court’s denial on May 12, 1955 of appellant’s fourth attack pursuant to 28…