UNITED STATES v. OGILVIE

No. 14519.

334 F.2d 837 (1964)

UNITED STATES of America ex rel. Charles TOWNSEND, Petitioner-Appellee, v. Richard B. OGILVIE, Sheriff of Cook County, and Jack Johnson, Warden of the Cook County Jail, Respondents-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals Seventh Circuit.

July 22, 1964.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edward J. Hladis, Chief of Civil Division, Daniel P. Ward, State's Atty. of Cook County, Ill., Donald J. Veverka, Asst. State's Atty., Chicago, Ill., for respondents-appellants.

George N. Leighton, Chicago, Ill., for petitioner-appellee.

Before SCHNACKENBERG, KNOCH and SWYGERT, Circuit Judges.


SWYGERT, Circuit Judge.

This case is again before us on appeal from the district court following remand by the United States Supreme Court in Townsend v. Sain, 372 U.S. 293, 83 S.Ct. 745, 9 L.Ed.2d 770 (1963), directing the district court to conduct an evidentiary hearing on petitioner's request for a writ of habeas corpus. Petitioner Charles Townsend claimed his confession of the murder of Jack Boone in 1953 was inadmissible in the...

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