BAILEY v. HENSLEE

No. 16142.

264 F.2d 744 (1959)

Luther BAILEY, Appellant, v. Lee HENSLEE, Superintendent of Arkansas State Penitentiary, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Eighth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied April 27, 1959.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thad D. Williams, Little Rock, Ark., for appellant.

Thorp Thomas, Asst. Atty. Gen. of Arkansas (Bruce Bennett, Atty. Gen. of Arkansas, on the brief), for appellee.

Before GARDNER, Chief Judge, and VOGEL and MATTHES, Circuit Judges.


GARDNER, Chief Judge.

This appeal is from an order denying appellant's petition for writ of habeas corpus. Appellant, a negro, was charged in the Circuit Court of Pulaski County, Arkansas, with the crime of rape upon a white woman. On the trial before a jury he was convicted and upon a verdict of guilty the court imposed a death sentence as required by the statutes of Arkansas. When the case was called for trial defendant...

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