UNITED STATES v. LAVALLE

Civ. No. 7275.

170 F.Supp. 582 (1959)

UNITED STATES ex rel. Samuel Tito WILLIAMS, Relator, v. J. Edwin LAVALLE, Warden of Clinton Prison, Dannemora, New York, Respondent.

United States District Court N. D. New York.

February 2, 1959.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Samuel Tito Williams, petitioner, pro se.

Louis J. Lefkowitz, Atty. Gen. of New York, Edward S. Silver, Dist. Atty., Kings County, Brooklyn, N. Y., (Raymond B. Madden, Asst. Atty. Gen., William I. Siegel, Asst. Dist. Atty., Brooklyn, N. Y., of counsel), for respondent.


FOLEY, District Judge.

This petition for a writ of habeas corpus presents a challenge, which has become commonplace in this District Court, to a murder first degree judgment of conviction of the State of New York. The petitioner was found guilty of felony murder by a jury on January 22, 1948, and the said judgment of conviction and sentence was rendered against him in the County Court of Kings County on March 2, 1948. County Judge Goldstein, who presided at the trial...

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