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JIMENEZ v. JONES

No. 4609.

195 F.2d 159 (1952)

JIMENEZ v. JONES, Warden.

United States Court of Appeals First Circuit.

March 11, 1952.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Santos P. Amadeo, Rio Piedras, P. R. (Rafael V. Perez-Marchand, Rio Piedras, P. R., on brief), for appellant.

Frank Vizcarrondo Vivas, Asst. Prosecuting Atty., San Juan, P. R. (Victor Gutierrez Franqui, Atty. Gen. of Puerto Rico, and J. Rivera Barreras, Prosecuting Attorney, San Juan, P. R., on brief), for appellee.

Before MAGRUDER, Chief Judge, and MARIS and WOODBURY, Circuit Judges.

MAGRUDER, Chief Judge.

Israel Jiménez Meléndez brings this appeal from an order of the Supreme Court of Puerto Rico entered June 20, 1951, denying an original petition for a writ of habeas corpus. The claim to relief was based upon an allegation that petitioner was illegally restrained in the Insular Penitentiary under a void judgment of the District Court of Puerto Rico, Arecibo Section, entered September 15, 1943, sentencing Jiménez to life imprisonment...

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