FIKES v. LONG

Civ. A. No. 74-396-N.

388 F.Supp. 418 (1975)

William Earl FIKES, Petitioner, v. Bill LONG, as Warden of Mt. Meigs Diagnostic Center, Respondent.

United States District Court, M. D. Alabama, N. D.

January 21, 1975.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edward F. Glynn, Jr., Hogan & Hartson, Washington, D. C., James L. Chestnut, Jr., Selma, Ala., for petitioner.

Donald G. Valeska, II, Asst. Atty. Gen., of Ala., Montgomery, Ala., for respondent.


ORDER

VARNER, District Judge.

This cause is submitted for final order of this Court on petition for writ of habeas corpus filed herein December 24, 1974, seeking to set aside Petitioner's conviction of rape by the Circuit Court of Dallas County, Alabama, on June 24, 1953, on the grounds that a confession upon which his conviction was partially based was illegally obtained. The primary question for this Court is whether, under the circumstances of this case...

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