WHITE v. BLACKWELL

Civ. A. No. 10184.

277 F.Supp. 211 (1967)

Robert Joyner WHITE, Leroy Freeman Duncan, Frederick Freeman Leister and Leon Jackson, Plaintiffs, v. Olin G. BLACKWELL, Warden, United States Penitentiary, Atlanta, Georgia, Defendant.

United States District Court N. D. Georgia, Atlanta Division.

November 20, 1967.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert Joyner White, pro se.

Bruce R. Jacob, Atlanta, Ga., for Leroy Freeman Duncan, Frederick Freeman Leister and Leon Jackson.

Charles L. Goodson, U. S. Atty., and F. D. Hand, Jr. and Theodore E. Smith, Asst. U. S. Attys., Atlanta, Ga., for respondent.


STATEMENT OF THE CASE.

HOOPER, District Judge.

This action originated by a Complaint filed June 1, 1966 by plaintiffs White, Duncan and Jackson. An additional plaintiff withdrew and a new plaintiff added by intervention, viz., plaintiff Leister.

Substantially this action is brought by Duncan, Jackson and Leister, inmates of the Penitentiary in Atlanta, who contend that their convictions were illegal, and they seek the right to invoke the assistance...

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