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    This document summarizes a 1962 court case, Hunt v. United States. It discusses how James W. Hunt was convicted in 1957 of illegal possession and sale of narcotics and sentenced to 12 years in prison. He appealed his conviction unsuccessfully. In 1959 and 1961, Hunt filed motions under 28 U.S.C.A. 2255 to vacate his sentence, which were denied. In this case, Hunt filed a petition for a writ of habeas corpus in the Eastern District of Virginia, where he was imprisoned. The court denied the petition, finding it did not have jurisdiction since Hunt's claims could be raised through a Section 2255 motion. The appellate court affirmed, concluding all of Hunt's many claims in the "prol

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    This document summarizes a 1962 court case, Hunt v. United States. It discusses how James W. Hunt was convicted in 1957 of illegal possession and sale of narcotics and sentenced to 12 years in prison. He appealed his conviction unsuccessfully. In 1959 and 1961, Hunt filed motions under 28 U.S.C.A. 2255 to vacate his sentence, which were denied. In this case, Hunt filed a petition for a writ of habeas corpus in the Eastern District of Virginia, where he was imprisoned. The court denied the petition, finding it did not have jurisdiction since Hunt's claims could be raised through a Section 2255 motion. The appellate court affirmed, concluding all of Hunt's many claims in the "prol

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    301 F.

    2d 663

    James W. HUNT, Appellant,


    v.
    UNITED STATES of America, Appellee.
    No. 8539.

    United States Court of Appeals Fourth Circuit.


    Argued March 20, 1962.
    Decided March 28, 1962.

    James W. Hunt on brief pro se.


    Plato Cacheris, Asst. U.S. Atty. (C. V. Spratley, Jr., U.S. Atty., on brief),
    for appellee.
    Before SOPER, HAYNSWORTH and J. SPENCER BELL, Circuit
    Judges.
    PER CURIAM.

    This petitioner was arrested and indicted for illegal possession and sale of
    narcotic drugs in the District of Columbia. He was tried in the District Court for
    the District of Columbia and was convicted in that court on November 7, 1957.
    He was sentenced to a maximum of twelve years imprisonment. Upon direct
    appeal from this conviction to the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia
    he raised the issue of entrapment, and that court affirmed the conviction. Hunt
    v. United States, 103 U.S.App.D.C. 309, 258 F.2d 161 (D.C.Cir.1958). He has
    been imprisoned since the date of conviction in the Federal Penitentiary for the
    District of Columbia in Lorton, Virginia.

    In October of 1959 Hunt filed a motion to vacate judgment and sentence under
    28 U.S.C.A. 2255 in the District Court for the District of Columbia. That court
    denied the motion. Petitioner filed an application to appeal from that denial in
    forma pauperis. The District Court denied this application as frivolous and not
    in good faith. Petitioner's appeal from this decision was dismissed as frivolous.
    The Supreme Court denied certiorari at 364 U.S. 943, 81 S.Ct. 464, 5 L.Ed.2d
    374 (1961).

    Hunt filed the present petition for writ of habeas corpus in the District Court for
    the Eastern District of Virginia, the place of his imprisonment. This was denied
    without a hearing in the court below.

    We have examined at great length the many contentions contained in this prolix
    and inartistically drawn petition. We are satisfied that all of them may be raised
    by motion under Sec. 2255. Therefore, the District Court below was without
    jurisdiction to grant the writ. Morris v. United States, 254 F.2d 812 (4 Cir.
    1958); Gaylord v. Clemmer, 242 F.2d 872 (4 Cir. 1957).

    Affirmed.

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