Heim v. United States
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Hearing on an appeal from a judgment of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, on verdict, in a criminal prosecution for adultery. The Court in the opinion stated the facts as follows: Appellant, George W. Heim, defendant below, was convicted in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia of the crime of adultery. It appears that, when arraigned, defendant entered a plea of not guilty.
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Hearing on an appeal from a judgment of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, on verdict, in a criminal prosecution for adultery. The Court in the opinion stated the facts as follows: Appellant, George W. Heim, defendant below, was convicted in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia of the crime of adultery. It appears that, when arraigned, defendant entered a plea of not guilty. Thereafter, when the cause came on for trial, ho appeared in court with- counsel who had been representing him, but who had expressed a desire to withdraw from the ease. The defendant asked the court…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Van Orsitej
Confessions belong in two general classes, — judicial and extrajudicial. Judicial confessions may be divided into two kinds, — those made by way of plea of guilty, or otherwise, before a committing magistrate, and which form a part of the. preliminary record upon which the case is sent to the grand jury for indictment; and those made by way of plea of guilty to an indictment or information when the accused is arraigned in the trial court. To the latter class the confession before, us belongs. The objection here is that'the plea of guilty was not voluntarily made. This objection goes to the…
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