McCOLLOCH, Chief Judge.
About fifteen years ago the Supreme Court began a series of decisions that greatly broadened habeas corpus. The effect of the decisions was to encourage a segment of the prison population to seek retrial of their cases; this included convicts in state, as well as federal penitentiaries.
An attempt was made, beginning in 1942 and culminating in 1948, to check the swarm of convict cases, by codification of habeas corpus procedure 28 U...
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