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338 F.2d 996

Docket No. 15730.

Smith v. United States

Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals

Decided Nov. 17, 1964.

Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals · decided 1964-11-17

Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently July 1965

5 federal appellate ·

2 counsel of record

Relies on United States v. Dickerson

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Opinion by (per_curiam) · Decided 1964-11-17

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¶1John A. Bechtold (Court Appointed), Cincinnati, Ohio, for appellant.

¶2Boyce F. Martin, Jr., Louisville, Ky., William E. Scent, U. S. Atty., John E. Stout, Asst. U. S. Atty., Louisville, Ky., on brief, for appellee.

¶3Before WEICK, Chief Judge, EDWARDS, Circuit Judge, and GRAY, District Judge.

¶4PER CURIAM.

¶5Plaintiff-appellant had pled guilty to five counts of an indictment alleging sale and possession of marihuana and was sentenced to concurrent terms which produced a sentence of five years.

¶6More than a year after sentence, plaintiff filed a motion to withdraw his plea of guilty to a “void indictment.” The District Judge construed this as a motion to vacate sentence under Title 28, U.S.C. § 2255 filed on the ground that the two sale counts of the indictment were constitutionally defective in that they did not name the purchaser of the drugs.

¶7The District Judge denied the motion, holding that “examination of the indictment reveals that it clearly charges the offense for which the petitioner was convicted.”

¶8Affirmed. United States v. Harry Lee Dickerson, 337 F.2d 343 (C.A.6, 1964).

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