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BAILEY v. HENSLEE

Civ. No. 3656.

168 F.Supp. 314 (1958)

Luther BAILEY, Petitioner, v. Lee HENSLEE, Superintendent of the Arkansas State Penitentiary, Respondent.

United States District Court E. D. Arkansas, W. D.

December 3, 1958.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thad D. Williams, Little Rock, Ark., for petitioner.

Bruce Bennett, Atty. Gen. of Arkansas, and Thorp Thomas, Asst. Atty. Gen., for respondent.

HENLEY, District Judge.

On October 22, 1956, Luther Bailey, a Negro man, hereinafter called petitioner, was adjudged guilty of the crime of rape upon the person of a white woman by the Circuit Court of Pulaski County, Arkansas, First Division, and was sentenced to death; the Supreme Court of Arkansas affirmed, Bailey v. State, 227 Ark. 889, 302 S.W.2d 796, and the Supreme Court of the...

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