ODOM v. NASH

No. 14828-2.

226 F.Supp. 855 (1964)

Charles Harvey ODOM, Petitioner, v. E. V. NASH, Warden, Respondent.

United States District Court W. D. Missouri, W. D.

February 27, 1964.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Anthony P. Nugent, Jr., Kansas City, Mo., Stephen M. Boyd and Charles Edson, St. Louis, Mo., for petitioner.

Thomas F. Eagleton, Howard McFadden, Jefferson City, Mo., for respondent.


GIBSON, Chief Judge.

Petitioner, an inmate in state custody at the Missouri State Penitentiary, was found guilty on a charge of forcible rape, and sentenced to death by a jury in the Circuit Court of Jasper County, Missouri, on November 9, 1961. Petitioner has exhausted his state remedies as required by § 2254, Title 28, U.S.C., and now files in forma pauperis a petition for habeas corpus and a motion for a stay of execution. In light of the facts and circumstances...

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