IRVIN v. DOWD

Civ. No. 2250.

153 F.Supp. 531 (1957)

Leslie IRVIN v. A. F. DOWD, as Warden of the Indiana State Prison at Michigan City, Indiana.

United States District Court N. D. Indiana, South Bend Division,

July 8, 1957.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Theodore Lockyear, Jr., James D. Lopp, Evansville, Ind., James D. Nafe, South Bend, Ind., for petitioner.

Robert O'Mahoney and Carl Franceschini, Deputy Attys. Gen., for respondent.


PARKINSON, District Judge.

This is a habeas corpus proceeding initiated by the petitioner on July 2, 1957 upon the presentation thereby to this court of a verified petition for the writ alleging that the petitioner had been tried, convicted and sentenced to death by electrocution on July 9, 1957 by the Gibson Circuit Court of Gibson County, Indiana without due process of law in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States and that...

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