Nathaniel Rowans v. Sherman H. Crouse, Warden, Kansas State Penitentiary, Lansing, Kansas

LEWIS, Circuit Judge.

This appeal is taken from an order of the District Court for the District of Kansas discharging, after a hearing, petitioner’s application for a writ of habeas corpus. Petitioner, a state prisoner, contends that he was mentally incompetent at the time he entered a plea of guilty to the state offense and has never been given an opportunity to have his competency legally determined. The court below found that a determination of mental competency to enter a plea had been made by the state trial court and that such determination “rested upon petitioner’s own admissions, made…