United States v. Meyers

HODGE, District Judge.

Defendant, while a prisoner at the McNeil Island Penitentiary serving sentence in this cause, has filed on his own behalf in forma pauperis a motion to vacate such judgment and sentence or for correction of sentence under the provisions of Sec. 2255, Title 28 U.S.C.A., Act of June 25, 1948, as amended. There are no published decisions of the Alaska courts applying or interpreting this section (although such motions have been filed), and hence the motion presents some novel questions to this Court.

There appears to be no question but that this Act is applicable to the…