UNITED STATES v. SAIN

No. 12520.

265 F.2d 660 (1958)

UNITED STATES of America ex rel. Charles TOWNSEND, Appellant, v. Frank G. SAIN, Sheriff of Cook County; and Jack Johnson, Warden of the Cook County Jail, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals Seventh Circuit.

December 17, 1958.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

George N. Leighton, William R. Ming, Jr., and Loring B. Moore, Chicago, Ill., for relator-appellant.

Benjamin S. Adamowski, State's Atty., and Edwin A. Strugala, Asst. State's Atty., Chicago, Ill., for respondents-appellees.

Before FINNEGAN, SCHNACKENBERG and KNOCH, Circuit Judges.


SCHNACKENBERG, Circuit Judge.

Charles Townsend, appellant, having procured an order from the district court granting leave to him to proceed in forma pauperis, has appealed from an order of the district court dismissing his petition for a writ of habeas corpus. That court granted him a certificate of probable cause for appeal.

It appears from motions filed in this court by appellant that he was sentenced to death, for the crime of murder, by the Criminal...

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