GOVERNMENT OF UNITED STATES v. BENNETT

Civ. No. 1-282.

209 F.Supp. 687 (1962)

GOVERNMENT OF the UNITED STATES ex rel. Ernest J. TRIPLETT, Relator, v. John E. BENNETT, Warden of Iowa State Penitentiary, Ft. Madison, Iowa, having Custody of Ernest J. Triplett, Respondent.

United States District Court S. D. Iowa, E. D.

September 24, 1962.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ernest L. Woolsey, Council Bluffs, Iowa, for petitioner.

Evan Hultman, Atty. Gen. of Iowa, and John H. Allen, Asst. Atty. Gen., of Iowa, Des Moines, Iowa, for defendant.


STEPHENSON, Chief Judge.

This matter is before the Court on the Relator's Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus.

This case was originally tried in the Iowa District Court in Plymouth County. It was appealed to the Iowa Supreme Court, wherein the finding of guilty of second degree murder and the sentence to life imprisonment was affirmed.1 Rehearing was denied by the Iowa Supreme Court.2 Petition for Writ...

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