Paul Handy Nunley v. United States

In this proceeding under 28 U.S.C.A. § 2255, Nunley seeks relief from a sentence imposed upon him after pleading guilty in the United States District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma, to offenses involving the sale of narcotics in violation of 18 U.S.C.A. § 371, 26 U.S. C.A. § 4704(a), and § 4705(a). The petitioner alleges that he was not mentally competent to enter the plea of guilty and that he was not adequately represented by counsel at the time of the entry of the plea and the sentence.

The question of insanity'or the competency of defendant to enter a plea of guilty was not…