CROOK v. HENDERSON

No. 1048.

310 F.Supp. 200 (1970)

Edward Francis CROOK v. C. Murray HENDERSON, Warden, Louisiana State Penitentiary.

United States District Court, E. D. Louisiana, Baton Rouge Division.

March 17, 1970.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

G. Patrick Burvant, Baton Rouge, La., for petitioner.

Louise Korns, Asst. Dist. Atty., Parish of Orleans, New Orleans, La., for respondent.


MISCELLANEOUS

WEST, Chief Judge:

Edward Francis Crook, presently incarcerated on death row at Louisiana State Penitentiary, petitions this Court for a writ of habeas corpus. He was convicted by a jury of aggravated rape and was sentenced, on April 24, 1968, to death. He bases his petition on two grounds, (1) that his constitutional rights were violated by the introduction of evidence of a prior rape at his trial, and (2) that the jury which convicted him...

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