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PYLE v. KANSAS

No. 50.

317 U.S. 213 (1942)

63 S.Ct. 177

87 L.Ed. 214

PYLE v. KANSAS ET AL.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided December 7, 1942.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Joseph P. Tumulty, Jr. for petitioner.

Mr. Jay Kyle, with whom Messrs. Jay S. Parker, Attorney General of Kansas, and Braden C. Johnston, Assistant Attorney General, were on the brief, for respondents.

MR. JUSTICE MURPHY delivered the opinion of the Court.

Petitioner seeks to review an order of the Supreme Court of Kansas denying his application for writ of habeas corpus. In 1935 petitioner was convicted by a jury in a Kansas state court upon an information charging him with the crimes of murder and robbery. A motion for a new trial was overruled, and he was sentenced to life imprisonment under his conviction for murder...

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