Fenton v. Aderhold

FOSTER, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from a judgment dismissing a petition for a writ of habeas corpus.

The material allegations of the petition, in substance, are that appellant was convicted in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio on a plea of guilty for a violation of the Dyer Act and sentenced to the Federal penitentiary in Atlanta, Georgia; that petitioner does not remember pleading guilty; and that at the time of the trial he was insane and did not know what he was doing. Exhibits attached to the petition tend to show that after his incarceration in the…