UNITED STATES EX REL. DUDLEY v. BRANTLEY

No. 71-1813.

461 F.2d 653 (1972)

UNITED STATES of America ex rel. Thomas Earl DUDLEY, Petitioner-Appellant, v. Elza BRANTLEY, Warden, Illinois State Penitentiary, Menard Branch, Respondent-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided May 12, 1972.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas Earl Dudley, pro se. for appellant.

William J. Scott, Atty. Gen., James B. Zagel, Melbourne A. Noel, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen., Chicago, Ill., for appellee.

Before SWYGERT, Chief Judge, and KILEY and PELL, Circuit Judges.


PER CURIAM.

Dudley filed a habeas corpus petition for relief from his February, 1968 armed robbery conviction in an Illinois court. The district court dismissed the petition without an evidentiary hearing, and Dudley has appealed pro se. We affirm.

Dudley was arrested soon after the robbery of the Oasis Tavern in Mt. Carmel, Illinois. He was handcuffed and taken to the police station. From there, Dudley took the police officers to a place where the cash box...

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