SESSIONS v. MANNING

No. 7090.

227 F.2d 324 (1955)

George SESSIONS, Jr., Appellant, v. Wyndham MANNING, Sr., Superintendent, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Fourth Circuit.

Decided November 9, 1955.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

George Sessions, Jr., pro se, on brief.

William A. Dallis, Asst. Atty. Gen., of South Carolina (T. C. Callison, Atty. Gen., of South Carolina, on brief), for appellee.

Before PARKER, Chief Judge, DOBIE, Circuit Judge, and BARKSDALE, District Judge.


PER CURIAM.

This is an appeal from an order denying a petition for a writ of habeas corpus by a prisoner held in custody under a judgment and sentence of a court of South Carolina. He contends that he was convicted by false testimony and that he was absent from the court room during a portion of the trial. The question with respect to the truthfulness of the testimony upon which he was convicted was not one, however, which he could raise by application for habeas...

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