Curtis v. United States

ROVER, Chief Judge.

Appellant was adjudged to be the father of a child born out of wedlock in a paternity proceeding before the Juvenile Court in 1950. Almost eight years later, following an adjudication of contempt by the same court, appellant filed a motion to set aside his “plea of guilty” in the original proceeding and to vacate both that judgment and the subsequent judgment of contempt on the ground that he was without the benefit of counsel.

Curtis first appeared before the court on September 21, 1950, and acknowledged paternity of the child. The record of that hearing contains a printed…