JOHN MOSS, APPELLANT,
v.
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, APPELLEE

5th Cir. | 1959-02-18
No. 17462
263 F.2d 615 Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit (1959) Positive Treatment
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Holding

The court held that issues concerning the intrinsic facts of the offense must be raised on direct appeal, not through a collateral proceeding like a motion to correct a sentence.


Facts & Procedural History

Appellant sought to correct his sentence under Rule 35, arguing it was void. The court treated the motion as an application under 28 U.S.C. § 2255.…

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Opinion of the Court
PER CURIAM.

PER CURIAM.

Approximately six months after the sentence on his plea of guilty, appellant sought a correction of it under F.R.Cr.P. 35, 18 U.S.C.A. As Rule 35 contemplates the correction of a sentence of a court having jurisdiction, Fooshee v. United States, 5 Cir., 1953, 203 F. 2d 247, the Court properly considered the papers as an application under 28 U.S.C.A. § 2255 since it was urged that the sentence was void, not merely imperfect.

Moss was a confederate of Meyers, whose appeal, Meyers v. United States, 5 Cir., 1958, 260 F. 2d 956, grew out of the very swindle involved here. That decision, and Londos v. United States, 5 Cir., 1957, 240 F. 2d 1, certiorari denied Dudley v. United States, 353 U.S. 949, 77 S.Ct. 860, 1 L.Ed.2d 858, foreclose the questions here presented on the sufficiency of the indictment to state an offense under 18 U.S.C.A. § 2314. These concern the elements of interstate or foreign transportation and the status of the customer’s draft instrument as a falsely made and forged security.

The remaining complaints go to the question of whether the intrinsic facts would establish the charge. Such matters must be presented by direct appeal and may not be reviewed by this collateral proceeding. Arthur v. United States, 5 Cir., 1956, 230 F. 2d 666; Caw-ley v. United States, 5 Cir., 1958, 251 F. 2d 461; McCreary v. United States, 5 Cir., 1957, 249 F. 2d 433.

Affirmed.


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