UNITED STATES v. YEAGER

Nos. 14244-14246.

327 F.2d 320 (1963)

UNITED STATES of America, ex rel., Sylvester JOHNSON, Appellant, v. Howard YEAGER, Principal Keeper of the New Jersey State Prison. UNITED STATES of America, ex rel., Stanley CASSIDY, Appellant, v. Howard YEAGER, Principal Keeper of the New Jersey State Prison. UNITED STATES of America, ex rel., Wayne GODFREY, Appellant, v. Howard YEAGER, Principal Keeper of the New Jersey State Prison.

United States Court of Appeals Third Circuit.

Decided July 17, 1963.

Rehearing Denied January 24, 1964.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Curtis R. Reitz, Philadelphia, Pa. (Stanford Shmukler, Philadelphia, Pa., M. Gene Haeberle, Camden, N. J., on the brief), for appellants.

Norman Heine, Camden County Prosecutor, Camden, N. J., for appellee.

Before KALODNER, HASTIE and GANEY, Circuit Judges.


Rehearing Denied in Nos. 14244, 14245 January 24, 1964.

PER CURIAM.

These are companion appeals to those decided today in United States ex rel. Johnson, et al. v. Yeager, 3 Cir., 311 F.2d 327. While they concern the same state convictions of first-degree murder in the course of robbery, they arise out of the denial of a different petition of the convicted men for habeas corpus, based upon a different alleged defect in their...

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