UNITED STATES v. RAGEN

No. 12687.

274 F.2d 250 (1960)

UNITED STATES of America ex rel. Emil RECK, Relator-Appellant, v. Joseph E. RAGEN, Warden, Respondent-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Seventh Circuit.

January 13, 1960.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

A. Bradley Eben, Bernard Weissbourd, Donald Page Moore, Richard A. Siegal, Chicago, Ill., for appellant.

William C. Wines, Chicago, Ill., Grenville Beardsley, Atty. Gen. of Illinois, Edward M. White, Asst. Atty. Gen., of counsel, for appellee.

Before HASTINGS, Chief Judge, and DUFFY and SCHNACKENBERG, Circuit Judges.


SCHNACKENBERG, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from action1 of the district court quashing a writ of habeas corpus which it had issued on the petition of Emil Reck, also referred to as "defendant", and remanding him to the custody of Joseph E. Ragen, appellee, warden of an Illinois state penitentiary.

In 1936 defendant was convicted of murder in the Criminal Court of Cook County, Illinois, and sentenced to a term of 199 years...

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