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DOWD v. UNITED STATES EX REL. COOK.

No. 66.

340 U.S. 206 (1951)

71 S.Ct. 262

95 L.Ed. 215

DOWD, WARDEN, v. UNITED STATES EX REL. COOK.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided January 2, 1951.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles F. O'Connor, Deputy Attorney General of Indiana, argued the cause for petitioner. With him on the brief were J. Emmett McManamon, Attorney General, and George W. Hand and Merl M. Wall, Deputy Attorneys General.

William S. Isham argued the cause and filed a brief for respondent.

MR. JUSTICE BLACK delivered the opinion of the Court.

Respondent, Lawrence E. Cook, brought this habeas corpus proceeding in the United States District Court in 1948. After hearing evidence, the District Court found as follows: In 1931 respondent was convicted of murder in an Indiana court, sentenced to life imprisonment, and immediately confined in the state penitentiary. Within the six-month period allowed for appeal as of right by Indiana law, respondent prepared...

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