GOODE v. COOK

Civ. A. No. 4404.

319 F.Supp. 246 (1969)

Percy Lee GOODE, Petitioner, v. Tom COOK, Superintendent of Mississippi State Penitentiary, Respondent.

United States District Court, S. D. Mississippi, Jackson Division.

September 26, 1969.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

W. S. Moore, Jackson, Miss., for petitioner.

Guy N. Rogers, Asst. Atty. Gen., Jackson, Miss., for respondent.


OPINION OF THE COURT

DAN M. RUSSELL, District Judge.

Petitioner, a Negro male presently in the custody of the respondent at the Mississippi State Penitentiary, Parchman, Mississippi, filed his petition in forma pauperis, for a writ of habeas corpus under 28 U.S.C. § 2241, alleging that his conviction for rape and sentence for life should be set aside on the grounds, among others, that Negroes were systematically...

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