UNITED STATES v. BOSTIC

Crim. No. 58600.

192 F.Supp. 170 (1961)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff, v. James BOSTIC, Defendant.

United States District Court District of Columbia.

March 30, 1961.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edward J. Skeens and Ernest C. Raskauskas, Washington, D. C., for defendant, for the motion.

Oliver Gasch, U. S. Atty., and Luke Moore, Asst. U. S. Atty., for United States.


HOLTZOFF, District Judge.

The defendant James Bostic was convicted in this court on February 9, 1937, after a trial before Judge James Proctor and a jury, of murder in the first degree and was sentenced to death by electrocution. The sentence was later commuted by the President to imprisonment for 99 years. The defendant is now serving this sentence in the Atlanta Penitentiary.

At this time, twenty-four years after his conviction, the defendant moves pursuant...

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