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CHAPMAN v. SCOTT

No. 2997.

10 F.2d 156 (1925)

CHAPMAN v. SCOTT, Warden.

District Court, D. Connecticut.

December 14, 1925.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frederick J. Groehl, of New York City, Joseph M. Freedman, of Hartford, Conn., Ray M. Wiley, of Springfield, Mass., and Charles W. Murphy, of Danbury, Conn., for relator.

Hugh M. Alcorn, State's Atty., and Reinhart L. Gideon, Asst. State's Atty., both of Hartford, Conn., for respondent.

George H. Cohen, Asst. U. S. Atty., of Hartford, Conn., for the United States as amicus curiæ.

THOMAS, District Judge.

On April 4, 1925, the relator was convicted of the crime of murder in the first degree by a jury in the superior court for Hartford county, in the state of Connecticut, and now seeks, by this writ of habeas corpus, to avoid the sentence of death which was imposed by that court in conformity with the local law. The record upon which his prayer for relief is predicated discloses the following pertinent facts:

In August, 1922, Gerald Chapman...

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