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RECK v. PATE

No. 181.

367 U.S. 433 (1961)

RECK v. PATE WARDEN.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided June 12, 1961.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Donald Page Moore argued the cause for petitioner. With him on the brief was Anthony Bradley Eben.

William C. Wines, Assistant Attorney General of Illinois, argued the cause for respondent. With him on the brief were William G. Clark, Attorney General, and Raymond S. Sarnow and A. Zola Groves, Assistant Attorneys General.

MR. JUSTICE STEWART delivered the opinion of the Court.

On the night of January 2, 1936, Dr. Silber C. Peacock, a Chicago physician, left his Edgewater Beach apartment in response to an emergency telephone call to attend a sick child. He never returned. The next day his lifeless body was found in his automobile on a Chicago street. It was apparent that he had been brutally murdered. On Wednesday, March 25, 1936, the petitioner,

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