UNITED STATES v. SILBERGLITT


182 F.Supp. 944 (1960)

UNITED STATES of America ex rel. Norman BRABSON, Petitioner, v. Harry SILBERGLITT, Warden, City Prison, Respondent.

United States District Court S. D. New York.

March 31, 1960.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Alan G. Weiler, Deputy Asst. Atty. Gen., Louis J. Lefkowitz, Atty. Gen., for respondent.


MacMAHON, District Judge.

This is a petition for a writ of habeas corpus under 28 U.S.C.A. § 2254. Petitioner, Brabson, is a prisoner of New York State serving a life sentence for murder in the first degree. He was convicted twenty years ago in the Court of General Sessions. He asserts that his conviction resulted from the knowing use of perjury by the prosecution in that the principal witness for the people, an informer named Funicello, testified falsely that...

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