UNITED STATES v. McNICHOLAS

Crim. No. 24333.

192 F.Supp. 717 (1961)

UNITED STATES of America v. Martin Joseph McNICHOLAS, also known as Mario Perna, and Robert Kemp Pippin.

United States District Court D. Maryland.

March 30, 1961.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Leon H. A. Pierson, U. S. Atty., and John R. Hargrove, Asst. U. S. Atty., Baltimore, Md., for plaintiff.

Martin Joseph McNicholas, pro se.


THOMSEN, Chief Judge.

On March 28, 1958, defendant McNicholas, represented by able court-appointed counsel, entered a plea of guilty to an indictment charging bank robbery,1 was sentenced to imprisonment for a period of twenty years, and is now confined in Alcatraz. He has filed a motion to vacate sentence,2 alleging (1) that he "was mentally incompetent at the time of his plea of guilty and sentence due to...

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