James A. Williams v. United States

Good Law
261 F.2d 224
United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth CircuitJanuary 19, 195915772California386 words

Opinion

Opinion

The above named appellant is the same person who previously appealed from certain orders denying petitions to vacate sentence under Title 28 U.S.C.A. § 2255 . Those appeals were unsuccessful. Williams v. United States, 9 Cir., 236 F.2d 894 . Subsequently Williams filed a further motion in the same district court seeking the same or similar relief and the district court, as it was authorized to do under § 2255, declined to entertain the motion. Thereafter an appeal was taken to this court and on December 16, 1957, this court handed down an order denying the appellant’s _ motion to remand the cause to the district court for further proceedings there, and his motion for certification of additional papers to supplement the record on appeal. The basis of our decision, as our order discloses, was that the appeal was frivolous and without merit.

On October 3, 1958 appellant filed in the same numbered cause dealt with in our order of December 16, 1957, what purports to be an application for leave to file an application for writ of habeas corpus. It is evident that appellant is unaware of the fact that this court does not entertain petitions for writs of habeas corpus. However, the paper…

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