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STATE EX REL. WILLIAMS v. RIGG

No. 37,797.

256 Minn. 568 (1959)

99 N.W. (2d) 450

STATE EX REL. JOHN WILLIAMS v. DOUGLAS C. RIGG.

Supreme Court of Minnesota.

November 20, 1959.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John Williams, pro se, for appellant.

Miles Lord, Attorney General, and Charles E. Houston, Solicitor General, for respondent as warden of Minnesota State Prison.

MURPHY, JUSTICE.

This is an appeal from an order of the District Court of Washington County denying a petition for a writ of habeas corpus. Respondent moves to deny the petition here for failure to allege facts upon which the petition could be granted.

On March 15, 1955, the relator appeared before the District Court of Hennepin County charged with having committed manslaughter in the first degree. He was tried, convicted, and sentenced to the Minnesota State...

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