Swift v. United States

This is an appeal from the refusal of the District Court to entertain a motion for leave to withdraw pleas of guilty and to substitute pleas of not guilty.

Appellant in June, 1943, pleaded guilty to three of seven indictments, charging violations of the Mann Act.1 Sentence was imposed a week or ten days later and the four remaining indictments were dismissed by the entering of a nolle prosequi in each. At the time the pleas were filed counsel for accused presented to the court the affidavit of a physician and the record of a hospital showing that appellant was suffering from a serious heart…