ALLEN v. MacDOUGALL

Civ. A. No. 67-98.

267 F.Supp. 837 (1967)

Alvin T. ALLEN, Petitioner, v. Ellis C. MacDOUGALL, as Director of the State Board of Corrections of the State of South Carolina, Respondent.

United States District Court D. South Carolina, Columbia Division.

May 11, 1967.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Alvin T. Allen, pro se.

Daniel R. McLeod, Atty. Gen., and Edward B. Latimer, Asst. Atty. Gen., Columbia, S.C., for defendant.


SIMONS, District Judge.

Petitioner is before the court in forma pauperis seeking a Writ of Habeas Corpus. He is currently serving a sentence in gross of twelve years in the South Carolina Penitentiary after he was tried and found guilty of housebreaking, larceny, and safecracking (with recommendation to mercy) in the Court of General Sessions for Chester County, South Carolina.1 He did not appeal from this conviction. Petitioner now alleges...

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