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UNITED STATES v. CUMMINGS

Civ. No. 6171.

152 F.Supp. 141 (1956)

UNITED STATES ex rel. Willis R. OAKLEY v. George A. CUMMINGS, Warden Connecticut State Prison.

United States District Court D. Connecticut.

June 29, 1956.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William S. Gordon, Jr., Gordon, Muir & Fitzgerald, Hartford, Conn., for petitioner.

Lorin W. Willis, State's Atty. for Fairfield County, Bridgeport, Conn., for respondent.

J. JOSEPH SMITH, Chief Judge.

Petitioner, serving a life sentence imposed by the Superior Court for Fairfield County November 6, 1950 on a plea of guilty to murder in the second degree, seeks release on a writ of habeas corpus on a claim that the single judge who sentenced him had no jurisdiction under the Connecticut Statutes to do so, no evidence as to the degree of the crime having been taken before a three judge court...

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