UNITED STATES v. RAGEN

No. 12918.

279 F.2d 202 (1960)

UNITED STATES of America ex rel. Talbot JENNINGS, Relator-Appellant, v. Joseph E. RAGEN, Warden, Illinois State Penitentiary, Joliet, Illinois, Respondent-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Seventh Circuit.

June 10, 1960.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Talbot Jennings, pro se.

William C. Wines, Asst. Atty. Gen., Grenville Beardsley, Atty. Gen., Raymond S. Sarnow, A. Zola Groves, Edward M. White, Asst. Attys. Gen., of counsel, for appellee.

Before HASTINGS, Chief Judge, KNOCH, Circuit Judge, and PLATT, District Judge.


KNOCH, Circuit Judge.

Talbot Jennings is serving a sentence for a term of not less than ten nor more than twenty-five years, in the Illinois State Penitentiary, at Joliet, Illinois, after conviction, in 1949, of armed robbery.

He petitioned the District Court for writ of habeas corpus on the ground that a confession introduced in evidence at his trial in the Illinois Court was secured through unlawful detention, physical...

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