Legal Opinion
Robert Wilburn Fisher v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Decided May 10, 1963No. 8747PublishedCited by 12 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SOBELOFF, Chief Judge.
- After pleading guilty in 1961 to a charge of violating the Dyer Act, 18 U.S.C.A. § 2312, Robert W. Fisher was sentenced to a three-year term in the United States Penitentiary at Atlanta, Georgia. Less than seven months later he moved in the District Court to vacate the sentence. The motion asserted that he was mentally incompetent at the time of his arraignment and trial and that his mental condition, which he describes as “depressive mania, kleptomania and schizophrenia acute,” was such that he was unable to comprehend the nature of the proceedings, to assist counsel…
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