Martin Amador Beltran v. United States of America, (Three Cases)

ALDRICH, Circuit Judge.

The appeals in these cases involve judgments of conviction of the defendant for various narcotics offenses. At the trial defendant admitted the factual evidence against him, but pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity. Following waiver by the defendant of the right of trial by jury, the trial judge found him guilty on all counts and imposed concurrent sentences for the various offenses. At the outset counsel raises a question here for the first time with relation to defendant’s competency to stand trial, not that he was not then competent, nor that the court was asked…