STIDHAM v. SWENSON

Civ. A. No. 18121-2.

328 F.Supp. 1291 (1970)

James William STIDHAM, Petitioner, v. Harold R. SWENSON, Respondent.

United States District Court, W. D. Missouri, W. D.

May 15, 1970.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Petitioner appeared pro se.

John Danforth, Atty. Gen., and Kenneth M. Romines, Asst. Atty. Gen., for respondent.


MEMORANDUM AND ORDER DENYING PETITION FOR HABEAS CORPUS

COLLINSON, District Judge.

Petitioner is an inmate of the Missouri State Penitentiary serving a sentence of life imprisonment upon conviction of a first-degree murder. Petitioner filed a petition for habeas corpus asserting that his conviction is void because it was rendered without due process of law and in violation of the Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendments.

In May, 1952 petitioner was...

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