UNITED STATES v. HARPOLE

No. 16481.

249 F.2d 417 (1957)

UNITED STATES of America ex rel. Robert Lee GOLDSBY, Appellant, v. William HARPOLE, Superintendent of the Mississippi State Penitentiary, Parchman, Mississippi, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

November 20, 1957.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

George N. Leighton, Chicago, Ill., Moore, Ming & Leighton, Chicago, Ill., for appellant.

Joe T. Patterson, Atty. Gen. of Miss., John H. Price, Jr., J. R. Griffin, Asst. Attys. Gen., Ross R. Barnett, Jackson, Miss., Barnett, Jones & Montgomery, Jackson, Miss., for appellee.

Before RIVES, JONES and BROWN, Circuit Judges.


JOHN R. BROWN, Circuit Judge.

In his application for writ of habeas corpus to the court below, appellant Goldsby alleged that his conviction for murder and sentence of death imposed by the courts of Mississippi, Goldsby v. State, Miss., 78 So.2d 762; certiorari denied 350 U.S. 925, 76 S.Ct. 216, 100 L. Ed. 809; Goldsby v. State, Miss., 86 So.2d 27; certiorari denied 352 U.S. 944, 77 S.Ct. 266, 1 L.Ed.2d 239, constitute a deprivation...

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