WHITNEY v. COCHRAN

No. 31516.

152 So.2d 727 (1963)

Dennis Manaford WHITNEY, Petitioner, v. H.G. COCHRAN, Jr., as Director of the Division of Corrections, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Florida.

Rehearing Denied May 22, 1963.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles A. Nugent, Jr., and Miller, Cone, Owen, Wagner & Nugent, West Palm Beach, for petitioner.

Richard W. Ervin, Atty. Gen., Reeves Bowen, Asst. Atty. Gen., Richard E. Gerstein, State Atty., and Roy Lee Jones, Asst. State Atty., for respondent.


THORNAL, Justice.

By a post conviction petition for a writ of habeas corpus Whitney assaults a conviction for first degree murder because of an alleged denial of due process at his trial.

We are called upon to consider the petitioner's claims that his conviction and sentence to death were infected by fatal deprivations of organic rights.

On June 30, 1960, petitioner was adjudged guilty of first degree murder pursuant to a jury verdict without recommendation...

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