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TURNER v. EIDSON

No. 14789.

215 F.2d 728 (1954)

Roy M. TURNER, Appellant, v. Ralph N. EIDSON, Warden of the Missouri State Penitentiary, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Eighth Circuit.

September 13, 1954.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard P. Conerly, St. Louis, Mo. (appointed by the Court), (Thompson, Mitchell, Thompson & Douglas, St. Louis, Mo., with him on the brief), for appellant.

Samuel M. Watson, Asst. Atty. Gen., of Missouri (John M. Dalton, Atty. Gen., of Missouri, with him on the brief), for appellee.

Before GARDNER, Chief Judge, and JOHNSEN, and COLLET, Circuit Judges.

JOHNSEN, Circuit Judge.

Appellant is an inmate of the Missouri State Penitentiary, under a sentence of life imprisonment, imposed in 1926, on his conviction by a trial court of that State for murder. After various, unsuccessful, collateral proceedings brought by him in the state courts of Missouri, he now seeks his release on a writ of habeas corpus in the federal courts. The District Court denied his application, and he...

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