TOWNSEND v. SAIN

No. 8.

372 U.S. 293 (1963)

TOWNSEND v. SAIN, SHERIFF, ET AL.

Supreme Court of United States.

Restored to the calendar for reargument April 2, 1962.

Reargued October 8-9, 1962.

Decided March 18, 1963.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

George N. Leighton reargued the cause and filed a brief for petitioner.

Edward J. Hladis reargued the cause for respondents. With him on the brief was Daniel P. Ward.


MR. CHIEF JUSTICE WARREN delivered the opinion of the Court.

This case, in its present posture raising questions as to the right to a plenary hearing in federal habeas corpus, comes to us once again after a tangle of prior proceedings. In 1955 the petitioner, Charles Townsend, was tried before a jury for murder in the Criminal Court of Cook County, Illinois. At his trial petitioner, through his court-appointed counsel, the public defender, objected to the

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