WILSON

v.

MCGEE, ADMINISTRATOR, ET AL.; WHALEM V. UNITED STATES; GAINES V. UNITED STATES; MITCHELL V. FLORIDA

Citator

Cited By

• United States ex rel. Eugene Fitzgerald v. LaVALLEE, 461 F.2d 601 (2d Cir. 1972)
  …five or six times a day if he had the heroin. However, such use of narcotics does not per se render a defendant incompetent to plead. United States v. Tom, 340 F. 2d 127 (2d Cir.), motion for leave to file petition for writ of habeas corpus denied, 382 U.S. 912, 86 S.Ct. 303, 15 L.Ed.2d 236 (1965); Grennett v. United States, 131 U.S.App.D.C. 202, 403 F. 2d 928, 931 (1968); White v. United States, 367 F. 2d 788, 790 (8th Cir. 1966); Holmes v. United States, 323 F. 2d 430, 431 (7th Cir. 1963), cert. denied,…
• United States v. Snyder, 529 F.2d 871 (D.C. Cir. 1976)
  …inly did — the District Court declined sua sponte to raise the issue of insanity. The court ruled in the light of Whalem v. United States, 120 U.S.App.D.C. 331, 346 F. 2d 812, cert. denied, 382 U.S. 862, 86 S.Ct. 124, 15 L.Ed.2d 100, rehear. denied, 382 U.S. 912, 86 S.Ct. 245, 15 L.Ed.2d 164 (1965). In that case this court, sitting en banc, said if a man is insane in the eyes of the law, he is blameless in the eyes of society and is not subject to punishment in the criminal courts. In the courtroom confro…