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GORDON v. BREAZEALE

No. GC645.

246 F.Supp. 2 (1965)

George A. GORDON, Petitioner, v. C. E. BREAZEALE, Superintendent of the Mississippi State Penitentiary, Respondent.

United States District Court N. D. Mississippi, Greenville Division.

September 15, 1965.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

R. Jess Brown, Jackson, Miss., Melvin L. Wulf, New York City, for petitioner.

Joe T. Patterson, Atty. Gen. of Mississippi, Garland Lyell, Asst. Atty. Gen., Jackson, Miss., Harvey Buck, Dist. Atty., West Point, Miss., George Everett, Dist. Atty., Greenwood, Miss., for respondent.

CLAYTON, District Judge.

Petitioner, George A. Gordon, seeks a writ of habeas corpus pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2241(c) (3), asserting that he is in custody by virtue of a judgment of a state court in violation of the Constitution of the United States. Gordon was convicted and sentenced to death for the crime of rape and now contends that he was deprived of due process of law and the equal protection of the laws in the criminal proceedings against him in the courts...

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