TAYLOR v. UNITED STATES

No. 12034.

222 F.2d 398 (1955)

George TAYLOR, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES of America, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit.

Decided March 14, 1955.

Petition for Rehearing Denied April 29, 1955.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Edward de Grazia, Washington, D. C. (appointed by this Court), with whom Mr. Charles Jay Pilzer, Washington, D. C. (appointed by the District Court), was on the brief, for appellant.

Mr. Gerard J. O'Brien, Asst. U. S. Atty., with whom Messrs. Leo A. Rover, U. S. Atty., and Lewis Carroll and Edward Troxell, Asst. U. S. Attys., were on the brief, for appellee.

Before EDGERTON, PRETTYMAN and WASHINGTON, Circuit Judges.


Petition for Rehearing In Banc Denied April 29, 1955.

EDGERTON, Circuit Judge.

The appellant was indicted in December 1952 for robbery, housebreaking and grand larceny alleged to have been committed on October 25 and 27, 1952. Before trial, in proceedings under 18 U.S. C.A. § 4244, he was found in March 1953 to be "presently insane and so mentally incompetent as to be unable to understand the proceedings against him, or properly to assist in his own defense...

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