CHASE v. ROBBINS

No. 7250.

408 F.2d 1350 (1969)

Carl R. CHASE, Petitioner, Appellant, v. Allan L. ROBBINS, Warden, Maine State Prison, Respondent, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals First Circuit.

April 16, 1969.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Pierce B. Hasler, Portland, Me., by appointment by the Court, for appellant.

John W. Benoit, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen., for appellee.

Before ALDRICH, Chief Judge, McENTEE and COFFIN, Circuit Judges.


McENTEE, Circuit Judge.

Petitioner Carl R. Chase is serving a life sentence resulting from a 1952 murder conviction in Maine. This Habeas Corpus petition, denied in the district court, is but the latest in a seemingly endless series of challenges to the conviction that petitioner has asserted in the intervening years.

We, unlike the district court, are confronted with the resolution of only one issue, namely, whether the petitioner was without counsel at his...

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