UNITED STATES v. WIMAN

No. 19391.

304 F.2d 53 (1962)

UNITED STATES of America ex rel. Willie SEALS, Jr., Appellant, v. Martin J. WIMAN, Warden, Kilby Prison, Montgomery, Alabama, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied June 29, 1962.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles S. Conley, Montgomery, Ala., for appellant.

MacDonald Gallion, Atty. Gen., of Alabama, George D. Mentz, Asst. Atty. Gen., Montgomery, Ala., for appellee.

Before RIVES, BROWN and WISDOM, Circuit Judges.


RIVES, Circuit Judge.

Seals, a Negro, was convicted of the rape of a white woman and was sentenced to death by electrocution. His conviction was affirmed by the Supreme Court of Alabama. Seals v. State, 1960, 271 Ala. 142, 122 So.2d 513. A petition for leave to file in the trial court a petition for writ of error coram nobis was denied by the Supreme Court of Alabama, Ex parte Seals, 1961, 271 Ala. 622, 126 So.2d...

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