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MADSEN v. OVERHOLSER

No. 14130.

251 F.2d 387 (1958)

Yvette J. MADSEN, Appellant, v. Winfred OVERHOLSER, Superintendent of Saint Elizabeths Hospital, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals District of Columbia Circuit.

Decided January 16, 1958.

Writ of Certiorari Denied March 31, 1958.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Joseph S. Robinson, New York City, of the bar of the Court of Appeals of New York, pro hac vice, by special leave of Court, with whom Mr. Dayton M. Harrington, Washington, D. C., was on the brief, for appellant.

Mr. Carl W. Belcher, Asst. U. S. Atty., with whom Messrs. Oliver Gasch, U. S. Atty., and Lewis Carroll, George H. Foster, Jr., and Alfred Burka, Asst. U. S. Attys., were on the brief, for appellee.

Before EDGERTON, Chief Judge, and FAHY and DANAHER, Circuit Judges.

Writ of Certiorari Denied March 31, 1958. See 78 S.Ct. 703.

PER CURIAM.

Appellant, then an Army wife in Germany, was convicted of murdering her husband. She has served only part of her sentence and is now a mental patient in St. Elizabeths Hospital. She contends her conviction and sentence were invalid and asks release in habeas corpus. In a previous habeas corpus case, Madsen v. Kinsella, 343 U.S....

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