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CURRAN v. STATE OF DELAWARE

No. 12.

154 F.Supp. 27 (1957)

Francis J. CURRAN, Francis J. Maguire, and Ira F. Jones, Jr., Petitioners, v. STATE OF DELAWARE, Respondent.

United States District Court D. Delaware.

August 15, 1957.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Irving Morris, Cohen & Morris, Wilmington, Del., for petitioners.

Joseph Donald Craven, Atty. Gen., and Frank O'Donnell, Deputy Atty. Gen., for respondent.

CALEB M. WRIGHT, District Judge.

The petitioners, Curran, Maguire and Jones were sentenced to life imprisonment following a conviction for rape in the Superior Court of the State of Delaware in February, 1948. In 1953 the petitioners filed a petition for a Writ of Habeas Corpus in the Superior Court of the State of Delaware, asserting that at trial they were denied their constitutional rights. The petition was dismissed without prejudice on the ground that the proper...

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