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Kammer v. United States

Circuit Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit
Feb 15, 1947
159 F.2d 889 (5th Cir. 1947)

Opinion

No. 11817.

February 15, 1947.

Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Western District of Texas; Ben H. Rice, Judge.

Warren Kammer was convicted on his plea of guilty of transporting stolen jewels in interstate commerce. From a judgment denying his petition in the nature of a writ of error coram nobis to review the judgment and sentence defendant appeals.

Affirmed.

Warren Kammer, in pro. per.

J.M. Burnett, U.S. Atty., Joel W. Westbrook, Asst. U.S. Atty., and Henry W. Moursund, Sp. Asst. to the Atty. Gen., for appellee.

Before HUTCHESON, HOLMES, and McCORD, Circuit Judges.


On July 17, 1946, appellant, who had been convicted on June 6, 1942, on his plea of guilty, of transporting in interstate commerce $75,000 worth of stolen jewels, and sentenced to serve eight years in the penitentiary, filed a petition in the sentencing court to vacate the judgment and sentence. In the nature of a writ of error coram nobis, it purported to present matters which showed that in his trial and sentence defendant had been deprived of due process of law. The district judge, of the opinion that the matters alleged as grounds for vacation of the judgment were, as matter of law, insufficient, and that the petition should be denied, sustained the motion of the United States to dismiss it, and it was accordingly dismissed. Appellant is here complaining of that dismissal as error. We do not think so. On the contrary, we think it clear that the judgment was right and should be affirmed.

Affirmed.


Summaries of

Kammer v. United States

Circuit Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit
Feb 15, 1947
159 F.2d 889 (5th Cir. 1947)
Case details for

Kammer v. United States

Case Details

Full title:KAMMER v. UNITED STATES

Court:Circuit Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit

Date published: Feb 15, 1947

Citations

159 F.2d 889 (5th Cir. 1947)