Legal Opinion
Vernon Glenn Bell v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided August 10, 1959No. 16420_1PublishedCited by 17 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BAZELON, Circuit Judge.
On November 24, 1958, appellant filed a petition for writ of error coram nobis asserting, inter alia, that he was mentally incompetent when he pleaded guilty on November 18, 1957, to charges under 18 U.S.C. §§ 2312 and 751 (1958). The petition alleged that in a psychiatric-examination report dated May 1, 1957, made in connection with Arizona state criminal proceedings, the following description of appellant appears:
“Mentally deficient, Sociopathi-cally disturbed, persecutory perceptions, paranoid ideas, History of concussions.”
In an affidavit attached to the petition…
2Cases cited6 opinions
- Edward B. Bishop v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1955
- Jonathan Gregori v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1957
- D. A. Simmons, Jr. v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1958
- Albert Lloyd v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1957
- Albert Seidner v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1958
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3Cited by17 opinions
- James P. Taylor v. United States of America, James Peter Taylor v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1960
- Fanklin Delano Floyd v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1966
- Gerald L. Stone v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1966
- Herman Edward Nelms v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1963
- Francis J. Hilderbrand v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 1962
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