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APPLICATION OF WYCKOFF

Civ. A. No. 3140.

196 F.Supp. 515 (1961)

Application of Elizabeth Porter WYCKOFF, for a Writ of Habeas Corpus.

United States District Court S. D. Mississippi, Jackson Division.

July 31, 1961.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William Kunstler of Kunstler & Kunstler, New York City, Jack H. Young, Jackson, Miss., for petitioner.

Joe T. Patterson, Atty. Gen., Dugas Shands, Edward L. Cates, Peter M. Stockett, Jr., Asst. Attys. Gen., J. A. Travis, Jr., Tom H. Watkins, E. W. Stennett, Robert G. Nichols, Jr., Jackson, Miss., for respondent.

MIZE, Chief Judge.

This matter is before the Court upon a petition of Elizabeth Porter Wyckoff for a writ of habeas corpus and upon the answer J. R. Gilfoy, as Sheriff of Hinds County, Mississippi. The petition for a writ of habeas corpus was filed with the Court and the Court issued a show cause order to the Sheriff of Hinds County why the writ should not issue and he responded thereto and the matter came on for hearing.

The petitioner alleged that she was...

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