UNITED STATES v. YEAGER

No. 17533.

446 F.2d 1360 (1971)

UNITED STATES of America ex rel. Robert LORAY, Appellant, v. Howard YEAGER, Warden, New Jersey State Prison, Trenton.

United States Court of Appeals, Third Circuit.

Decided August 16, 1971.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert Loray, pro se.

Joseph P. Lordi, County Prosecutor, David S. Baime, Newark, N. J. (R. Benjamin Cohen, Asst. Prosecutor, on the brief), for appellee.

Before HASTIE, Chief Judge, and McLAUGHLIN and GIBBONS, Circuit Judges.


OPINION OF THE COURT

HASTIE, Circuit Judge.

This appeal by a state prisoner, who is serving a life sentence for murder, from a denial of his petition for habeas corpus presents the question whether the district court erred in deciding against the appellant his claim that a confession used against him at his trial had been coerced. The district court did not hear testimony but decided upon the basis of the state...

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