Jacob Calloway v. United States

BAZELON, Circuit Judge.

Appellant was convicted of an assault with a dangerous weapon upon his estranged wife.

Before trial his court-appointed counsel moved for determination of defendant’s mental competency to stand trial. As ground for this motion, counsel alleged, inter alia, that the defendant “failed to respond logically to questions put to him * * * [that he] seemed dazed and detached and unable to orientate himself to the fact that he was being tried by a Court of Law. * * * [and that he] attempted suicide [on the day of the alleged offense] by jumping from the Fourteenth Street Bridge…