EX PARTE MURPHY

No. 362.

35 F.Supp. 473 (1940)

Ex parte MURPHY.

District Court, E. D. Wisconsin.

November 13, 1940.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Dan W. McCluskey and Jacob Geffs, both of Janesville, Wis., for petitioner.

Thomas E. McDougal, Dist. Atty., of Antigo, Wis., for respondent.


DUFFY, District Judge.

This matter is before the court upon the hearing of an order to show cause why a writ of habeas corpus should not be issued to John C. Burke, General Warden and Superintendent of the Wisconsin State Prison, upon the petition of Ben Murphy who is now an inmate of said prison.

Murphy was sentenced to State Prison for a term of from one to ten years upon the charge of breaking and entering in the nighttime; and for a period of from one...

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