Jordan v. United States

WILBUR K. MILLER, Circuit Judge.

For many years the procedure to be followed by the United States District Court for the District of Columbia in determining an accused person’s mental competence to stand trial was prescribed by a statute originally enacted March 3, 1901, 31 Stat. 1340, ch. 854, § 927, which, as amended April 14, 1906, 34 Stat. 113, ch. 1624, and July 2, 1945, 59 Stat. 311, ch. 217, appears as § 24-301 in the 1951 edition of the District of Columbia Code. 1 There was no statutory procedure, however, to be followed by the other federal courts of the nation in determining such a…