CURTIS v. TOWER

No. 13514.

262 F.2d 166 (1959)

John A. CURTIS, Appellant, v. Chester TOWER et al., Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals Sixth Circuit.

January 7, 1959.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Samuel M. Allen, Cincinnati, Ohio, for appellant.

Robert D. McClear, Detroit, Mich. (Nathaniel H. Goldstick, Detroit, Mich., on the brief), for appellees.

Before ALLEN, Chief Judge, SIMONS, Circuit Judge, and GOURLEY, District Judge.


SIMONS, Circuit Judge.

The appellant is presently serving an indeterminate sentence of twenty to forty years upon conviction by a jury for the crimes of assault and armed robbery committed March 11, 1949. After three futile motions for new trial in the trial court, the overruling of two petitions for writs of habeas corpus by the Supreme Court of Michigan, the abandonment of an application for leave to appeal to the Michigan Supreme Court, the failure of his two petitions...

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