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CURTIS v. UNITED STATES

No. 2263.

150 A.2d 473 (1959)

William CURTIS, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES, Appellee.

Municipal Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.

Decided April 21, 1959.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William A. Smith, Washington, D. C., with whom Curtis P. Mitchell, Washington, D. C., was on the brief, for appellant.

Ted D. Kuemmerling, Asst. Corp. Counsel, Washington, D. C., with whom Chester H. Gray, Corp. Counsel, Milton D. Korman, Principal Asst. Corp. Counsel, and Hubert B. Pair, Asst. Corp. Counsel, Washington, D. C., were on the brief, for appellee. Richard W. Barton, Asst. Corp. Counsel, Washington, D. C., also entered an appearance for appellee.

Before ROVER, Chief Judge, and HOOD and QUINN, Associate Judges.

ROVER, Chief Judge.

Appellant was adjudged to be the father of a child born out of wedlock in a paternity proceeding before the Juvenile Court in 1950. Almost eight years later, following an adjudication of contempt by the same court, appellant filed a motion to set aside his "plea of guilty" in the original proceeding and to vacate both that judgment and the subsequent judgment of contempt on the ground that he was without the benefit of counsel.

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