John W. Morton v. United States

Appellant was convicted in 1943— twelve years ago — of murder in the second degree. This court affirmed. 1 Since then he has filed petitions for habeas corpus in the Eastern District of Virginia 2 and the Western District of Missouri, 3 and this is the ninth motion to vacate sentence 4 which he has filed in this jurisdiction. The District Court appointed counsel and held a hearing. It denied the motion.

Appellant’s brief in this court is forty-eight typewritten pages, thirty-nine of them devoted to alleged errors, largely concerning evidence and inferences therefrom, upon the original trial.…