Case ID: us-ct-cl_126/html/0947-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

No. 120-53.
    November 3, 1953.
    
      William Wright Roberts.
    
   Unjust conviction; suit .under the provisions of 28 TJ. S. C. 1495,2513'.

On defendant’s motion to dismiss, the following per curiam opinion was filed:

Plaintiff is clearly not entitled to recover. The statute makes it a prerequisite to recovery that a plaintiff prove innocence of the crime for which he was convicted and other, things, and it prescribes that these things can only be proven by a certificate of the trial judge. We have no such'certificate before ús.
Defendant’s motion is granted, and plaintiff’s petition is dismissed.
It is so ordered.