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STATE v. CULVER

No. 17010.

253 F.2d 507 (1958)

STATE OF FLORIDA, ex rel. Jimmie Lee THOMAS, Appellant, v. R. O. CULVER, as Director of the Division of Corrections of the State of Florida, and Al Cahill, Sheriff of Duval County, Florida, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

April 2, 1958.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ernest D. Jackson, Sr., Jacksonville, Fla., for appellant.

George R. Georgieff, Asst. Atty. Gen., Nathan Schevitz, Asst. State Atty., Jacksonville, Fla., Richard W. Ervin, Atty. Gen., of Florida, for appellees.

Before HUTCHESON, Chief Judge, and BORAH and TUTTLE, Circuit Judges.

PER CURIAM.

This is an appeal from the denial by the trial court of a writ of habeas corpus. Appellant, a Negro, stands convicted of the rape of a white woman, and is sentenced to electrocution by the State of Florida by reason of a verdict of guilty without a recommendation of mercy.1 Appellant has heretofore presented his appeal to the State Supreme Court, Thomas v. State, 92...

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