Adkins v. Sanford

HOLMES, Circuit Judge.

This appeal is from an order discharging a writ of habeas corpus. It presents the question: Does the Sixth Amendment to the Constitution require the United States District Court, at the peril of its jurisdiction, to appoint counsel to represent a defendant who made no request for a lawyer, who admitted his guilt before the Commissioner, who pleaded guilty to the three-count indictment against him after it was read to him in open court, who now acknowledges that he was guilty as charged, and whose sole complaint against the outcome of the proceedings is that, had he been…