Elmer S. Edwards v. United States

Elmer S. Edwards, petitioner-appellant, appeals from an order of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky at Covington, denying his motion under Section 2255, Title 28, U.S.C. to vacate his sentence. Edwards is confined in the United States Penitentiary at Atlanta, Georgia, serving a twenty year sentence upon his plea of guilty to a charge of bank robbery.

At the time of the sentence of which he now complains he was on parole from a 1960 eighteen year sentence for a similar charge of bank robbery. There were twelve unserved years remaining on that sentence. He…