WILLIAMS v. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

No. 2267.

147 A.2d 773 (1959)

Dallas O. WILLIAMS, Appellant, v. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, Appellee.

Municipal Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.

Decided January 19, 1959.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Howard Adler, Jr., Washington, D. C., for appellant.

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

Before HOOD and QUINN, Associate Judges, and CAYTON (Chief Judge, Retired) sitting by designation under Code, § 11-776(b).


CAYTON, Acting Judge.

From a simple beginning as a charge of intoxication, this case before long became the subject of a habeas corpus proceeding in the U. S. District Court; an appeal therein to the U. S. Court of Appeals; a sanity inquisition in the Municipal Court; and a second habeas corpus proceeding in the District Court.

The case is now before this court on defendant's appeal from rulings of the Municipal Court refusing to accept his plea of guilty...

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