John F. Waldon v. United States

MAJOR, Circuit Judge.

Petitioner (appellant) was convicted and sentenced in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Illinois on February 5, 1940, on a seven-count indictment predicated upon an attempt to rob a United States railway mail car. On June 3, 1965, petitioner filed in the sentencing court a motion under Title 28 U.S.C.A. § 2255, to vacate and set aside said judgment. On the same date an order was entered by Judge Casper Platt, denying the relief sought, with the statement, “After a careful examination of the motion this court finds that the matters set forth in…