WHITTEN v. BENNETT

Nos. 8530-8533, No. 8537.

141 F.2d 295 (1944)

WHITTEN v. BENNETT, Warden. PEOPLE ex rel. FRANKOWSKI v. SAME. PEOPLE ex rel. DARLING v. SAME. PEOPLE ex rel. REWITZER v. SAME. PEOPLE ex rel. TURNER v. SAME.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

March 8, 1944.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kenneth N. Whitten, Walter Frankowski, Robert Darling, Alfred Michael Rewitzer, and Paul Turner, of Pontiac, Ill., in pro. per., for appellants.

George F. Barrett, Atty. Gen., for appellee.

Before EVANS, MAJOR, and MINTON, Circuit Judges.


EVANS, Circuit Judge.

These five appeals, in forma pauperis, are from denials by District Judge Adair of their respective petitions for writs of habeas corpus. These five causes were tried below together with nine others. They were distinct and several petitions, but were consolidated for argument by the trial court, and argued together. Such consolidation of hearings is one of the errors assigned on appeal.

This court has ordered that the appeals be permitted...

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