VAN DE BOGART v. UNITED STATES

No. 19446.

305 F.2d 583 (1962)

Paul Milo VAN DE BOGART, Jr., Appellant, v. UNITED STATES of America, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

June 28, 1962.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Paul Milo Van de Bogart, Jr., for appellant.

Macon L. Weaver, U. S. Atty., R. Macey Taylor, Asst. U. S. Atty., Aubrey O. Lammons, Asst. U. S. Atty., Birmingham, Ala., for appellee.

Before TUTTLE, Chief Judge, and RIVES and BROWN, Circuit Judges.


JOHN R. BROWN, Circuit Judge.

This case presents again the difficult problem of determining the question of mental competency to stand trial for a criminal charge. Difficult it is, at least in the sense that since this reflects our basic notion that those incapable of understanding the nature of the proceedings taking place ought not to be tried, every case must be measured in like terms of fundamental satisfaction of that...

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