MANESS v. SWENSON

No. 18797.

385 F.2d 943 (1967)

Hugh E. MANESS, Appellant, v. Harold R. SWENSON, Warden, Missouri State Penitentiary, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Eighth Circuit.

November 17, 1967.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Hugh E. Maness, pro se.

Norman H. Anderson, Atty. Gen. of Missouri, and Gerald L. Birnbaum, Asst. Atty. Gen., Jefferson City, Mo., for appellee.

Before VAN OOSTERHOUT, GIBSON and HEANEY, Circuit Judges.


GIBSON, Circuit Judge.

Hugh E. Maness, an inmate of the Missouri State Penitentiary, appeals from a judgment entered by the District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri, denying habeas corpus relief from his fifty-year sentence entered by a Missouri Circuit (trial) Court in May 1939, on a charge of forcible rape.

He alleges that the judge of the State Court, upon receiving the jury verdict of guilty, immediately and on the same day in a continuous proceeding...

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