Joseph James Bongiorno v. United States

VAN OOSTERHOUT, Chief Judge.

This is a pro se appeal in forma pau-peris by Joesph James Bongiorno, here inafter called defendant, from order denying his 28 U.S.C.A. § 2255 motion attacking his conviction upon plea of guilty to Count I of an indictment charging him with bank burglary in violation of 18 U.S.C.A. § 2113.

Defendant with three others was indicted on September 14, 1959, on charges of bank burglary and conspiracy to commit bank burglary. All defendants appeared in court with employed counsel, Roy W. Smith, on September 15 and entered pleas of not guilty to each count. On November 13,…