DARR v. BURFORD

No. 51.

339 U.S. 200 (1950)

DARR v. BURFORD, WARDEN.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided April 3, 1950.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John B. Ogden submitted on brief for petitioner.

Mac Q. Williamson, Attorney General of Oklahoma, and Sam H. Lattimore, Assistant Attorney General, submitted on brief for respondent.


MR. JUSTICE REED delivered the opinion of the Court.

Petitioner Darr, an inmate of the Oklahoma state penitentiary, has been denied federal habeas corpus for failure to exhaust his other available remedies. Petitioner's omission to apply here for certiorari from the state court's denial of habeas corpus was held an error, fatal to consideration on the merits. Therefore the merits of petitioner's claims of imprisonment in violation of the Constitution are not before...

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