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WETZEL v. HARPOLE

No. 16553.

244 F.2d 695 (1957)

William A. WETZEL, Appellant, v. William HARPOLE, Superintendent, Mississippi State Penitentiary, Parchman, Sunflower County, Mississippi, et al., Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

May 29, 1957.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Howard A. McDonnell, Biloxi, Miss., for appellant.

Joe T. Patterson, Atty. Gen., J. R. Griffin, Asst. Atty. Gen., for appellee.

Before HUTCHESON, Chief Judge, and JONES and BROWN, Circuit Judges.

HUTCHESON, Chief Judge.

William A. Wetzel, petitioner below, filed in the District Court for the Northern District of Mississippi a petition for a writ of habeas corpus to secure his release from custody under a sentence imposing the death penalty on him for the alleged murder of one Edgar G. McGraw. In his petition he alleged: (1) that he was wrongfully and illegally convicted, in violation of his constitutional rights under the Fourteenth Amendment, by the knowing...

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