UNITED STATES v. WALLER

Civ. A. No. 4821.

126 F.Supp. 537 (1954)

UNITED STATES of America ex rel. Joseph SHEFFIELD v. Hiram B. WALLER, Sheriff of the Parish of Franklin, State of Louisiana.

United States District Court, W. D. Louisiana, Monroe Division.

December 23, 1954.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Eugene Stanley, J. Charles Collins, Jr., New Orleans, La., Leon A. Picou, St. Francisville, La., for relator.

Fred S. LeBlanc, Atty. Gen., State of Louisiana, M. E. Culligan, Asst. Atty. Gen., State of Louisiana, Harry N. Anders, Dist. Atty., Fifth Judicial District, State of Louisiana, Winnsboro, La., for respondent.


DAWKINS, Jr., Chief Judge.

Presented here by an application for habeas corpus, we have for decision the question of whether due process of law was done, under the Federal Constitution, in a State court conviction of murder. Jurisdiction exists.1

On June 14, 1953, John L. Waller, a deputy sheriff in Franklin Parish, Louisiana, acting in line of duty, was killed instantly by a shotgun blast. Nineteen days later Joseph Sheffield...

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