UNITED STATES v. ROBERTSON

No. 72-1781.

507 F.2d 1148 (1974)

UNITED STATES of America v. Thomas L. ROBERTSON, Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit.

As Amended October 22, 1974.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mortimer M. Caplin and Leon E. Irish, Washington, D. C. (appointed by this Court), were on the brief for appellant.

Harold H. Titus, Jr., U. S. Atty., John A. Terry, Henry F. Greene, Warren L. Miller and Frederick C. Moss, Asst. U. S. Attys., were on the brief for appellee.

Before BAZELON, Chief Judge, WILKEY, Circuit Judge, and KAUFMAN, United States District Judge for the District of Maryland.


BAZELON, Chief Judge.

Appellant, Thomas Robertson, who was found mentally competent to stand trial, expressly refused to invoke the defense of insanity. He was convicted by a jury of second-degree murder, assault with intent to kill while armed and carrying a pistol without a license (22 D.C.Code §§ 2403, 3202, 3204), for which he received concurrent sentences of ten years to life, two to fifteen years, and one year respectively.

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