FORD, District Judge.
This is a petition for a writ of habeas corpus. As petitioner alleges, he filed a petition for a writ of error in the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts on July 20, 1948, assigning as error that he was tried on a second-degree murder charge without benefit of counsel in violation of his rights under the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution.
Justice Spalding heard the case on the merits on November 10, 1948 and, after a full hearing...
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