Carlton S. Scott v. United States

It has been our policy to see that, in the public interest, any attack made upon a criminal conviction or sentence is not left open but is terminated and cleared from the records of the District Court and this Court.

To accomplish that end in the present situation, the appeal pending from the District Court’s allowing of notice of appeal to be filed to its order denying modification or correction of appellant’s sentence will be permitted to be docketed without payment of fee, but leave to proceed further in forma pauperis will be denied, and the appeal will be dismissed as frivolous.

In thus…