MOTHERSHEAD v. KING

No. 142.

37 F.Supp. 210 (1941)

MOTHERSHEAD v. KING, Warden.

District Court, W. D. Missouri, S. D.

February 24, 1941.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James Mothershead, pro se.

Richard K. Phelps, First Asst. U. S. Dist. Atty., and Otto A. Schmid, Asst. U. S. Dist. Atty., both of Kansas City, Mo., for defendant.


REEVES, District Judge.

The petitioner seeks his discharge from custody on several grounds — First, because of impaired hearing he did not understand the proceedings at the time he entered a plea of guilty and was sentenced, or, specifically, as he alleges, "without petitioner being able to hear a word of the indictments read out to him and without having been furnished a copy of the same to read for himself." The...

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