STATE OF MINNESOTA v. RIGG

Civ. No. 5351.

139 F.Supp. 235 (1956)

STATE of MINNESOTA ex rel. Lewis PAYNE, Relator, v. Douglas C. RIGG, Warden, Respondent.

United States District Court D. Minnesota, Fourth Division.

February 10, 1956.


DEVITT, District Judge.

This matter comes before the Court on a petition for a writ of habeas corpus filed by the relator, an inmate of the Minnesota State Prison, on his own behalf.

Relator claims that he has been illegally confined at the State Prison since 1934, pursuant to a warrant of commitment issued by the District Court Clerk of Lake of the Woods County, Minnesota. He claims that he was tried and convicted of murder, but that his constitutional rights...

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