BRENT v. WHITE

Misc. No. 965.

276 F.Supp. 386 (1967)

Leon BRENT v. Wingate WHITE, Warden of the Louisiana State Penitentiary.

United States District Court E. D. Louisiana, Baton Rouge Division.

November 22, 1967.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Samuel M. Cashio, Bryan E. Bush, Jr., Baton Rouge, La., for petitioner.

Ralph L. Roy, Asst. Dist. Atty., Baton Rouge, La., for respondent.


WEST, District Judge:

Petitioner, Leon Brent, after having exhausted available State Court remedies, applies to this Court for the issuance of a writ of habeas corpus. He is presently incarcerated at Louisiana State Penitentiary awaiting execution of the death sentence imposed upon him after having been found guilty of the crime of aggravated rape. Before this Court he asserts four grounds for his contention that his constitutional rights were violated during his...

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