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MEEKS v. LAINSON

236 F.2d 395 (1956)

James Clyde MEEKS, Petitioner, v. Percy A. LAINSON, Warden, Iowa State Penitentiary, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals Eighth Circuit.

August 20, 1956.

WOODROUGH, Circuit Judge.

The petitioner is confined in the Iowa State Penitentiary under conviction and sentence by the district court of Wapello County, Iowa, for violation of Section 718.2, Iowa Code Annotated, State v. Meeks, 245 Iowa 1231, 65 N.W.2d 76. On May 8, 1956, he applied to the United States District Court for the Southern District of Iowa for a writ of habeas corpus on the ground that:

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