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PETERS v. RUTLEDGE

No. 25075.

397 F.2d 731 (1968)

Dean Rene PETERS, Appellant, v. Jack T. RUTLEDGE, Sheriff and Jailer of Muscogee County, Georgia, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

June 6, 1968.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Archie L. Haden, Jr., Columbus, Ga., Kirk McAlpin, Jack H. Watson, Jr., Atlanta, Ga., for appellant.

Frank K. Martin, Asst. Sol. Gen., Columbus, Ga., Mathew Robins, Asst. Atty. Gen., Atlanta, Ga., for appellee.

Before BROWN, Chief Judge, and AINSWORTH and GODBOLD, Circuit Judges.

JOHN R. BROWN, Chief Judge:

Appellant Peters seeks review of an order denying without an evidentiary hearing his petition for habeas corpus. Appellant raises a massive assault on his state conviction for burglary, asserting (1) use of illegally seized evidence against him at his trial, (2) systematic exclusion of Negroes from the grand and traverse (petit) juries by which he was indicted and convicted, (3) exclusion of all non-property owners from the grand and traverse...

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