UNITED STATES v. DENNO

No. 238, Docket 29382.

357 F.2d 809 (1966)

UNITED STATES of America ex rel. Willie COMBS, Petitioner-Appellant, v. Hon. Wilfred L. DENNO, as Warden of Sing Sing Prison, Ossining, New York, Respondent-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Second Circuit.

Decided March 15, 1966.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stephen R. Barnett, New York City, for petitioner-appellant.

Michael H. Rauch, New York City (Louis J. Lefkowitz, Atty. Gen. of State of New York, and Samuel A. Hirshowitz, First Asst. Atty. Gen., of counsel), for respondent-appellee.

Before FRIENDLY and HAYS, Circuit Judges, and DOOLING, District Judge.


DOOLING, District Judge.

Combs was charged on July 8, 1960, with homicide, indicted for murder in the first degree on October 20, 1960, convicted on his plea of guilty of manslaughter in the second degree and sentenced on April 11, 1961, as a second felony offender, to a term of seven and a half to fifteen years at Sing Sing prison. Contending that he had been denied the aid of counsel, particularly at the time he was arraigned, Combs first exhausted his state remedy...

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