STEIGLER v. ANDERSON

No. 173.

360 F.Supp. 1286 (1973)

Herbert F. STEIGLER, Petitioner, v. Raymond W. ANDERSON, Warden, Delaware Correctional Institution, Respondent.

United States District Court, D. Delaware.

June 6, 1973.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William E. Taylor, Jr., Wilmington, Del., for petitioner.

Richard R. Wier, Jr., Delaware State Prosecutor, Wilmington, Del., for respondent.


OPINION

LAYTON, District Judge.

Petition for Habeas Corpus. Denied.

During the early morning hours of October 19, 1968, the home of the petitioner in Deerhurst, New Castle County, Delaware, caught fire, firemen were summoned by petitioner's wife and the blaze not extinguished before three members of the family, petitioner's daughter, his mother-in-law and father-in-law had burned to death. During the fire, containers filled with gasoline, rugs saturated...

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