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BAILEY v. HENSLEE

No. LR 60 C 25.

184 F.Supp. 298 (1960)

Luther BAILEY, Petitioner, v. Lee HENSLEE, Superintendent of Arkansas State Penitentiary, Respondent.

United States District Court E. D. Arkansas, W. D.

May 26, 1960.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thad D. Williams, Little Rock, Ark., for petitioner.

Bruce Bennett, Atty. Gen., Thorp S. Thomas, Asst. Atty. Gen., for respondent.

YOUNG, District Judge.

This is a petition for a writ of habeas corpus by the petitioner, Luther Bailey, a Negro under sentence of death by the State of Arkansas for the crime of rape committed on a white woman June 14, 1956. Petitioner was tried upon this charge, convicted and sentenced in September of 1956.

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It is the petitioner's contention here (as modified by stipulation of his counsel read into...

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