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UNITED STATES EX REL. HUGHES v. RAGEN

No. 9051.

154 F.2d 289 (1946)

UNITED STATES ex rel. HUGHES v. RAGEN, Warden.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

March 21, 1946.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William Hughes, pro se.

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

Before EVANS and MAJOR, Circuit Judges.

PER CURIAM.

Petitioner is a prisoner in the Illinois State Penitentiary, serving a sentence of one to twenty years, imposed in October, 1921, pursuant to a judgment of conviction upon his plea of guilty. He sought to obtain his release from the penal institution by petitioning the District Court for a writ of habeas corpus. The District Court dismissed his petition, and from the order of dismissal this appeal followed. The trial judge signed the requisite certificate...

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