HILLEGAS v. SAMS

No. 22241.

349 F.2d 859 (1965)

Jan HILLEGAS, Appellant, v. Joe SAMS, Jr., County Attorney for Lowndes County, Mississippi, et al., Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied September 27, 1965.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

R. Jess Brown, Henry M. Aronson, Jackson, Miss., Anthony G. Amsterdam, Philadelphia, Pa., Jack Greenberg, New York City, for appellant.

William A. Allain, Asst. Atty. Gen., Jackson, Miss., for appellees.

Before JONES and BROWN, Circuit Judges, and SHEEHY, District Judge.


JONES, Circuit Judge.

The appellant, Jan Hillegas, brought a habeas corpus proceeding in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Mississippi claiming she was detained by the appellees unlawfully and in violation of Federally guaranteed rights. The facts herein recited are as set forth in her petition and, for the purposes of the case, are assumed to be true. The appellant is a white woman, twenty-one years of age, and went to Lowndes County,...

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