PER CURIAM.
Albert Velasco, relator-appellee, was a prisoner in an Illinois State Penitentiary serving a sentence of 45 years for murder, pursuant to a judgment of conviction rendered by the Criminal Court of Cook County, Illinois. In that case he was represented by the duly appointed public defender of the county. The case was tried by the court, defendant having waived a trial by jury. On May 28, 1945, he petitioned the District Court for a writ of habeas corpus...
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