Jack Wright Twining v. United States

GEWIN, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from an adverse ruling of the District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana in a proceeding instituted by appellant pursuant to 28 U.S.C.A. § 2255, filed approximately 5 years after sentence was imposed.

Briefly summarized, the defendant makes the following contentions: (1) he did not intelligently and understandably waive the right to counsel because he was not sufficiently informed of the na ture of the charges against him, the range of allowable punishment, possible defenses or circumstances which would tend to mitigate; (2) he did not…