309 U.S. 632
Docket No. 698.
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided March 25, 1940.
Supreme Court of the United States · decided 1940-03-25
1 counsel of record
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Decided 1940-03-25
Cited by 30 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 1993 · most notably Santobello v. New York (1971), Bishop v. United States (1955)
16 federal appellate · 1 district · 6 state decisions
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¶1Perry Frame, pro se.
¶3The motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis is granted. The petition for certiorari is also granted, and, upon consent of the Solicitor General, the judgment of the Circuit Court of Appeals is reversed and the cause remanded to the District Court for the purpose of making a full inquiry into the mental status of the petitioner at the time he entered- the pleas of guilty.