United States v. Martin

WYCHE, District Judge.

By letter dated March 15, 1948, received and filed on March 27, 1948, Robert S. Martin, now a prisoner in the United States Penitentiary, in Atlanta, Georgia, petitioned the Court “to vacate judgment and to issue a writ of habeas corpus, bringing me back to your Court for a new trial or if the Court sees fit turn me loose”.

The petitioner was sentenced at Greenwood, South Carolina, on December 8, 1947, after he had waived his right to indictment by a grand jury and consented to be charged with violation of the National Motor Vehicle Theft Act, 18 U.S.C.A. § 408, by way of…