UNITED STATES v. DENNO

No. 54, Docket 22789.

208 F.2d 605 (1953)

UNITED STATES ex rel. LEYRA v. DENNO.

United States Court of Appeals Second Circuit.

Decided November 24, 1953.

Writ of Certiorari Granted March 15, 1954.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Osmond K. Fraenkel, New York City (Frederick W. Scholem, New York City, on the brief), for petitioner-appellant.

William I. Siegel, Asst. Dist. Atty., Kings County, N. Y., Brooklyn, N. Y. (Nathaniel L. Goldstein, Atty. Gen., State of New York, and Miles F. McDonald, Dist. Atty., Kings County, N. Y., Brooklyn, N. Y., on the brief), for respondent-appellee.

Before CHASE, Chief Judge, and CLARK and FRANK, Circuit Judges.


Writ of Certiorari Granted March 15, 1954. See 74 S.Ct. 533.

CLARK, Circuit Judge.

This appeal is by Camilo Weston Leyra from the denial of his petition for a writ of habeas corpus wherein he asserted a violation of constitutional due process in his trial and conviction for murder and sentence to death in the courts of the State of New York. His first trial and conviction, for murder of his parents, resulted in a...

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