Chadwick v. United States

On February 3, 1947, appellant, having had the assistance of able counsel to advise and consult with him, pleaded guilty to charges of having broken into a building used as a post office, and, acting jointly and severally with others, stole certain property of the United States. Sentenced to serve three years in the penitentiary, he entered upon the service of his sentence. On April 9, 1948, he filed a motion for leave to file and docket motion to vacate judgment and sentence, the grounds being that he had been held in secret seclusion by officers of the government as a prisoner from- July…