MOORE v. HENSLEE

Nos. 16433, 16434.

276 F.2d 876 (1960)

James M. MOORE and Rogers Boone, Appellants, v. Lee HENSLEE, Superintendent of the Arkansas State Penitentiary, Appellee. James Albert BOYD and Willie H. Byrd, Appellants, v. Lee HENSLEE, Superintendent of the Arkansas State Penitentiary, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Eighth Circuit.

March 29, 1960.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

W. Harold Flowers, Pine Bluff, Ark., and Harold B. Anderson, Little Rock, Ark., for appellants.

Thorp Thomas, Asst. Atty. Gen., for appellee.

Before SANBORN, VAN OOSTERHOUT, and MATTHES, Circuit Judges.


PER CURIAM.

James M. Moore, Rogers Boone, James Albert Boyd and Willie H. Byrd, all Negroes, were jointly charged in an information filed by the Prosecuting Attorney within and for the Eighth Judicial Circuit of the State of Arkansas, of which Miller County is a part, with murdering M. R. Hamm, an aged white man, on May 9, 1956. They were first tried together in the summer of 1956, in the Circuit Court of Miller County, Arkansas, the situs of the crime, found guilty...

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