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LABAT v. SIGLER

Misc. No. 550.

162 F.Supp. 574 (1958)

Edgar LABAT and Clifton Alton Poret v. Hon. Maurice SIGLER, Warden of the Louisiana State Penitentiary, Angola, Louisiana, on Application for a Writ of Habeas Corpus.

United States District Court E. D. Louisiana, New Orleans Division.

May 27, 1958.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

G. Wray Gill, G. H. Schreiber, Simmie R. Monroe, New Orleans, La., for relators and petitioners.

Jack P. F. Gremillion, Atty. Gen., M. E. Culligan, Asst. Atty. Gen., John E. Jackson, Jr., Weldon Cousins, New Orleans, La., for the State of Louisiana.

J. SKELLY WRIGHT, District Judge.

Petitioners, both Negroes, are condemned to die for the rape of a white female in the city of New Orleans. They were convicted by jury and their conviction was affirmed by the Supreme Court of Louisiana. State v. Labat, 226 La. 201, 75 So.2d 333. The Supreme Court of the United States also affirmed the conviction after granting a writ of certiorari limited to an attack...

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