UNITED STATES v. LANE

Civ. No. 2650.

193 F.Supp. 395 (1961)

UNITED STATES ex rel. Paul PIERCE and Donald Joseph, Petitioners, v. Ward LANE as Warden of the Indiana State Prison, Respondent.

United States District Court N. D. Indiana, South Bend Division.

March 29, 1961.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William Isham, Fowler, Ind., for petitioners.

Edwin K. Steers, Atty. Gen., Patrick Sullivan, Asst. Atty. Gen., of Indiana, for respondent.


GRANT, District Judge.

This is an action on behalf of the above-named petitioners, presently serving sentences of life imprisonment in the Indiana State Prison at Michigan City, Indiana, for a Writ of Habeas Corpus pursuant to Title 28 U.S.C.A. § 2241, etc.

The novel issue presented by this Petition, being one for which neither Court nor Counsel, after exhaustive research, have been able to discover a controlling precedent, and the decision of which rests...

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