UNITED STATES v. RAGEN

No. 11793.

246 F.2d 264 (1957)

UNITED STATES of America, ex rel. William A. SPROCH, Petitioner-Appellant, v. Joseph RAGEN, Warden, Illinois State Penitentiary, Respondent-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Seventh Circuit.

July 3, 1957.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Roy B. Schneider, Jr., Chicago, Ill., for appellant.

Latham Castle, Atty. Gen., Theodore G. Maheras, Asst. Atty. Gen., for appellee, William C. Wines, Raymond S. Sarnow, A. Zola Groves, Asst. Attys. Gen., of counsel.

Before LINDLEY and SCHNACKENBERG, Circuit Judges, and BRIGGLE, District Judge.


LINDLEY, Circuit Judge.

The relator, prisoner of the State of Illinois, appeals from a judgment of the district court dismissing, without hearing, his application for a writ of habeas corpus, a voluminous and repetitious petition. In view of the fact that he was then acting pro se, we do not hold him to the usual standards of pleading, or to the niceties of a correct legal presentation of his claim. Consequently, we treat his petition with indulgence.

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