UNITED STATES v. RAGEN

No. 9496.

167 F.2d 792 (1948)

UNITED STATES ex rel. PARKER v. RAGEN.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

May 7, 1948.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

George F. Barrett, Atty. Gen., of State of Ill., and William C. Wines, Asst. Atty. Gen., of State of Ill. (Raymond S. Sarnow and James C. Murray, Asst. Attys. Gen., of Ill., of counsel), for appellant.

Elbridge Bancroft Pierce, of Chicago, Ill., for appellee.

Before KERNER and MINTON, Circuit Judges, and LINDLEY, District Judge.


MINTON, Circuit Judge.

We have for answer first the question of whether a writ of habeas corpus shall issue to try and determine the validity of one sentence of life imprisonment for armed robbery while the petitioner is serving at the same time another sentence of one year to life imprisonment for a like offense, which sentence is admittedly valid. Secondly, if the writ may issue, has the petitioner been denied due process under the Fourteenth Amendment in the trial...

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