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UNITED STATES v. ADAMS

Civ. A. No. 920.

171 F.Supp. 266 (1959)

UNITED STATES ex rel. Elmer David BRUNER, Petitioner, v. Donivon E. ADAMS, Warden, West Virginia Penitentiary, Respondent.

United States District Court N. D. West Virginia.

March 13, 1959.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Howard Caplan, Clarksburg, W. Va., for petitioner.

W. W. Barron, Atty. Gen., of West Virginia, and Giles D. H. Snyder, Asst. Atty. Gen., for respondent.

HARRY E. WATKINS, Chief Judge.

Petitioner, who has been convicted of murder and has been sentenced to death by a state court, has filed a petition for a writ of habeas corpus. He was allowed to proceed in forma pauperis, and, although he did not ask for appointment of counsel, a competent attorney was appointed to represent him. In order to show that he has raised the same points in the Supreme Court of West Virginia and in the Supreme Court of the United States,...

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