SCHITA v. KING

No. 12402.

133 F.2d 283 (1943)

SCHITA v. KING.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

February 15, 1943.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Valdo B. Schita, appellant pro se.

Otto Schmid, Asst. U. S. Atty. (Maurice M. Milligan, U. S. Atty., on the brief), for appellee.

Before GARDNER, WOODROUGH, and THOMAS, Circuit Judges.


GARDNER, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from an order dismissing a writ of habeas corpus, by which appellant sought relief from a judgment of a general court martial convicting him of murder. We shall refer to the appellant as petitioner and the appellee as respondent.

Petitioner, a colored man, confined in the United States Hospital for Defective Delinquents at Springfield, Missouri, without the assistance of counsel, prepared and filed his petition for...

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