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UNITED STATES v. CUMMINGS

Civ. No. 6294.

154 F.Supp. 663 (1956)

UNITED STATES ex rel. Harold D. ROGERS v. George A. CUMMINGS, Warden of Connecticut State Prison and Frederick G. REINCKE, Adjutant General of the State of Connecticut, Acting Warden of Connecticut State Prison and Stuart E. TILLINGHAST, Deputy Warden, Connecticut State Prison.

United States District Court D. Connecticut.

September 20, 1956.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas R. Robinson, New Haven, Conn., Public Defender for New Haven County, for petitioner.

Abraham S. Ullman, New Haven, Conn., State's Atty. for New Haven County, for respondent.

J. JOSEPH SMITH, Chief Judge.

Relator, Harold D. Rogers, a negro with an 8th grade education, presently 48 years old, seeks relief by writ of habeas corpus from a judgment and sentence of death by the Superior Court for New Haven County on a charge of murder in the first degree in the perpetration of a robbery. The judgment was affirmed on appeal, State v. Rogers, 143 Conn. 167, 120 A.2d 409, certiorari denied 351 U.S. 952, 76 S...

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