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340 F.2d 602

Docket No. 7935.

Bailey v. United States

Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals

Decided Jan. 27, 1965.

Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals · decided 1965-01-27

Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently May 1967

5 federal appellate ·

2 counsel of record

Applies 18 U.S.C. § 2113 · 28 U.S.C. § 2255 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)

Relies on Russell v. United States · Hagner v. United States · United States v. Debrow

Good law ✅— No negative treatment on recordhow we know

Opinion by (per_curiam) · Decided 1965-01-27

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¶1See, also, 10 Cir., 324 F.2d 632.

¶2Bruce Ducker, Denver, Colo., for appellant.

¶3Melvin M. Gradert, Asst. U. S. Atty.,. Wichita, Kan. (Newell A. George, U. S-Atty., for the District of Kansas, with him on the brief), for appellee.

¶4Before PICKETT and LEWIS, Circuit. Judges, and DAUGHERTY, District-Judge.

¶5PER CURIAM.

¶6This is an appeal from an order denying a motion to set aside a judgment and1 sentence under 28 U.S.C. § 2255. On *603August 15, 1961 the appellant Bailey appeared in the United States District ■Court for the District of Kansas with •counsel of his own choice, and entered a plea of guilty to an indictment which •charged that he, with others, “forcibly •entered into the State Bank of Colwich •… Kansas, a bank insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation of the United States, with the intent to .steal therefrom, and did attempt to enter the said bank vault therein by breaking a hole in the wall surrounding same; in violation of 18 U.S.C. 2113.” This is Bailey’s third Section 2255 attack on the judgment and sentence imposed after the plea of guilty.

¶7 In essence, the allegations of the motion are that the indictment fails to charge an offense under the statute and the judgment and sentence is therefore void. We find no merit in the contention. Rule 7(c), F.R.Crim.P., requires that an indictment shall be a plain, concise and definite written statement of the essential facts constituting the offense charged. All the essential elements of the offense are contained in the allegations of the indictment and they meet the requirements of the rule, even if timely challenged prior to conviction. Hagner v. United States, 285 U.S. 427, 52 S.Ct. 417, 76 L.Ed. 861; Young v. United States, 10 Cir., 329 F.2d 316, cert. denied 377 U.S. 980, 84 S.Ct. 1886, 12 L.Ed.2d 748; Mims v. United States, 10 Cir., 332 F.2d 944;1 Clay v. United States, 10 Cir., 326 F.2d 196, cert. denied 377 U.S. 1000, 84 S.Ct. 1930, 12 L.Ed.2d 1050; Smith v. United States, 10 Cir., 273 F.2d 462, cert. denied 363 U.S. 846, 80 S.Ct. 1619, 4 L.Ed.2d 1729.

¶8There is no need for a discussion of the test of the sufficiency of the indictment in post-conviction proceedings. See, Foster v. United States, 10 Cir., 339 F.2d 188; Flores v. United States, 10 Cir., 338 F.2d 966; Charley v. United States, 10 Cir., 303 F.2d 512; Barnes v. Hunter, 10 Cir., 188 F.2d 86, cert. denied 342 U.S. 920, 72 S.Ct. 368, 96 L.Ed. 688.

¶9Affirmed.

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