UNITED STATES v. RAGEN

No. 111.

54 F.Supp. 973 (1944)

UNITED STATES ex rel. BONGIORNO v. RAGEN.

District Court, N. D. Illinois, E. D.

March 28, 1944.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles Liebman, of Chicago, Ill., for petitioner.

Hector A. Brouillet, Asst. Atty. Gen., and James V. Cunningham, Asst. State's Atty., of Chicago, Ill., for respondent.


BARNES, District Judge.

In this case, which is now before the court for decision after a hearing on the merits, the petitioner, John Bongiorno, seeks release, upon a writ of habeas corpus, from the Illinois State Penitentiary at Joliet, Illinois, where he is serving a sentence of 199 years, imposed by the Criminal Court of Cook County, Illinois, in September, 1933. The petitioner claims that he is held in custody in violation of the Constitution of the United States...

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