IN RE McSHANE'S PETITION

No. W-C-36-62.

235 F.Supp. 262 (1964)

Petition of James P. McSHANE for a Writ of Habeas Corpus.

United States District Court N. D. Mississippi, W. D.

September 16, 1964.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Herbert J. Miller, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen., Department of Justice, Washington, D. C., H. M. Ray, U. S. Atty., Oxford, Miss., for petitioner.

Joe T. Patterson, Atty. Gen., State of Mississippi, Jackson, Miss., Jess L. Yancy, Jr., Dist. Atty., Bruce, Miss., for respondent.


CLAYTON, District Judge.

James P. McShane, during the time with which we are concerned, was the Chief of the Executive Office of the United States Marshals in the Department of Justice in Washington. On September 30, 1962, at the direction of the Attorney General of the United States, McShane was in Lafayette County, Mississippi, and upon the campus of the University of Mississippi and was acting in his official capacity and as a deputy United States marshal for the...

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