LEE v. WIMAN

No. 18212.

280 F.2d 257 (1960)

Huey R. LEE, Jr., Appellant, v. Martin J. WIMAN, Warden, etc., and A. Frank Lee, as Commissioner of the Board of Corrections of the State of Alabama, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

June 23, 1960.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ralph L. Kaskell, Jr., New Orleans, La., for appellant.

George D. Mentz, Asst. Atty. Gen. of Alabama, MacDonald Gallion, Atty. Gen. of Alabama, for appellees.

Before RIVES, Chief Judge, and JONES and WISDOM, Circuit Judges.


RIVES, Chief Judge.

This appeal is from an order refusing to entertain, or denying without a hearing, an application for habeas corpus seeking the discharge of a prisoner from state custody. The applicant is confined under sentence of life imprisonment imposed when he was convicted of murder in the first degree.

The record now brought before us through the diligence of court-appointed counsel extends back over a period of eighteen years. On July 6, 1942, Huey...

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