UNITED STATES v. DYE

No. 10735.

203 F.2d 429 (1953)

UNITED STATES of America ex rel. Cleveland THOMPSON, Appellant, v. Charles L. DYE, Warden, Allegheny County Jail, Pittsburgh, Pa.

United States Court of Appeals Third Circuit.

Decided March 26, 1953.

Writ of Certiorari Denied May 18, 1953.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Louis C. Glasso and Zeno Fritz, Pittsburgh, Pa., for appellant.

Samuel S. Strauss, Asst. Dist. Atty. of Allegheny County, Pittsburgh, Pa., Randolph C. Ryder, Deputy Atty. Gen. of Pa. (James F. Malone, Jr., Dist. Atty., Pittsburgh, Pa., Frank P. Lawley, Jr., Asst. Deputy Atty. Gen., Robert E. Woodside, Atty. Gen., of Pa., on the brief), for appellee.

Before GOODRICH, KALODNER and HASTIE, Circuit Judges.


Writ of Certiorari Denied May 18, 1953. See 73 S.Ct. 946.

PER CURIAM.

This case comes to us on an appeal from a denial of writ of habeas corpus. The relator, Cleveland Thompson, was convicted of murder after a trial in a Pennsylvania court in Allegheny County. From a judgment imposing sentence of death he appealed to the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania. That court affirmed the judgment and sentence. Commonwealth v. Thompson, 1951, 367 Pa. 102...

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