UNITED STATES v. DOWD

No. 12337.

259 F.2d 761 (1958)

UNITED STATES of America ex rel. Jack RANDOLPH, Petitioner-Appellant, v. Alfred F. DOWD, as Warden of the Indiana State Prison, Respondent-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Seventh Circuit.

October 10, 1958.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Patrick W. O'Brien, Chicago, Ill., for appellant.

Edwin K. Steers, Atty. Gen., of Indiana, John A. Pushor, Deputy Atty. Gen., for appellee.

Before DUFFY, Chief Judge, and FINNEGAN and KNOCH, Circuit Judges.


KNOCH, Circuit Judge.

In granting motion of the respondent-appellee to dismiss petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus, the District Court noted that the petition sought to be dismissed showed on its face that the petitioner had failed to exhaust the state procedural remedies available to him, in that he had failed to petition the state courts for a writ of error coram nobis.

Petitioner-appellant asserts that his detention was imposed in violation of his...

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