CALLAHAN v. UNITED STATES

No. 19015.

297 F.2d 79 (1961)

Roger Marcel CALLAHAN, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES of America, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

December 13, 1961.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Roger Callahan, Danbury, Conn., for appellant.

William L. Bowers, Jr., Asst. U.S. Atty., Houston, Tex., Woodrow Seals, U. S. Atty., Houston, Tex., for appellee.

Before TUTTLE, Chief Judge, and HUTCHESON and JONES, Circuit Judges.


PER CURIAM.

This is an appeal from an order denying without hearing a motion to set aside a judgment of conviction under 28 U.S. C.A. § 2255.

Appellant alleges that at the time he was tried, he was a fugitive from a state mental institution and was not mentally competent to enter a plea of guilty. It is apparent that the trial court sought to the best of its ability with the appellant before it ready to plead guilty to determine whether appellant was...

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