UNITED STATES EX REL. LUSCOMB v. PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK


153 F.Supp. 1 (1957)

UNITED STATES of America ex rel. Leroy Riley LUSCOMB, Petitioner, v. The PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, Respondent.

United States District Court S. D. New York.

August 7, 1957.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Leroy Riley Luscomb, pro se.


LEVET, District Judge.

This is a petition for a writ of habeas corpus brought by Leroy Riley Luscomb, who is presently confined in Sing Sing Prison, Ossining, New York, where he is serving a term of life imprisonment upon a conviction for felony murder committed in the State of New York. The conviction, for which the petitioner was sentenced to death in the electric chair and which was subsequently commuted by the Governor of the State of New York to life imprisonment...

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