UNITED STATES EX REL. JOHNSON v. RUNDLE

No. 3700.

286 F.Supp. 765 (1968)

UNITED STATES of America ex rel. Donald JOHNSON, E-7769 v. A. T. RUNDLE, Supt.

United States District Court E. D. Pennsylvania.

June 28, 1968.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lawrence T. Hoyle, Jr., Philadelphia, Pa., Court-appointed, for relator.

Arlen Specter, Dist. Atty., Welsh S. White, Asst. Dist. Atty., Philadelphia, Pa., for respondent.


OPINION

JOSEPH S. LORD, III, District Judge.

Relator, a state prisoner, was convicted of rape on November 8, 1957 and is presently incarcerated under a six-and-one-half-to-fifteen-year sentence resulting from that conviction. He now seeks his release by way of federal habeas corpus.

The conviction arose from the events of the evening of September 18, 1957 at which time a 17-year-old white girl was assaulted and raped by a group of Negro boys. On...

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