UNITED STATES v. RAGEN

No. 9916.

180 F.2d 321 (1950)

UNITED STATES ex rel. TOUHY v. RAGEN, Warden, et al.

United States Court of Appeals Seventh Circuit.

February 24, 1950.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Otto Kerner, Jr., U. S. Atty., John Peter Lulinski, Anthony Scariano, Asst. U. S. Attorneys, Chicago, Ill., for petitioner.

Robert B. Johnstone, Howard Bryant, James A. Howell, Chicago, Ill., for respondent.

Before MAJOR, Chief Judge, FINNEGAN and LINDLEY, Circuit Judges.


MAJOR, Chief Judge.

Roger Touhy, relator in the court below, sued out a writ of habeas corpus against Joseph E. Ragen, Warden of the Illinois State Penitentiary, Joliet, Illinois, respondent in the court below, on the ground that he had been unlawfully convicted and was being illegally detained by respondent in violation of relator's constitutional rights. While the allegations of the petition for writ of habeas corpus are of little consequence in relation to the...

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