SISK v. OVERLADE

No. 11125.

220 F.2d 68 (1955)

Rufus Glenn SISK v. J. Ellis OVERLADE, Warden, Indiana State Prison.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

March 10, 1955.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

R. James Gormley, Chicago, Ill., for appellant.

Edwin K. Steers, Atty. Gen., Frank E. Spencer, Deputy Atty. Gen., Robert S. Baker, Deputy Atty. Gen., Indianapolis, Ind., for appellee.

Before DUFFY, Chief Judge, and FINNEGAN and SWAIM, Circuit Judges.


DUFFY, Chief Judge.

Petitioner, an inmate of the Indiana State Prison, prepared and caused to be filed, a verified petition addressed to the presiding judge of the United States District Court, Northern District of Indiana, praying that a writ of habeas corpus issue. Petitioner averred that he had been convicted of first degree murder in the Indiana State courts in violation of his rights guaranteed by the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United...

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