United States v. Claude Raymond Curry

ALBERT V. BRYAN, Circuit Judge:

His commitment under 18 U.S.C. §§ 4244-4246, and 4247-4248 as “not mentally capable of assisting in his own defense * * * and not mentally capable of pleading to the indictment returned against him”, for mailing a letter containing a threat upon the life of the President of the United States, 18 U.S.C. § 871, is here attacked for the appellant Claude Raymond Curry. The sole ground is that the commitment does not limit his detention to the period while he would “probably endanger the safety of the officers, the property or other interests of the United States”.

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