Broadus-Bey v. United States

THOMSEN, Chief Judge.

Judson Broadus-Bey, formerly known as Judson Broadus, has filed a petition under 28 U.S.C.A. § 2255, prepared with the advice of counsel, which the Fourth Circuit has held should be treated as a writ of error coram nobis, attacking the validity of his conviction and sentence in this Court in 1950, for violation of the narcotics laws. In his petition Broadus alleges that he was mentally incompetent to waive counsel and to plead guilty because he was a youth and a drug addict at the time.

Broadus, who was then twenty-six years old, was arraigned before Chief Judge Coleman of…