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STATE EX REL. FARRINGTON v. RIGG

No. 38,224.

259 Minn. 483 (1961)

107 N.W. (2d) 841

STATE EX REL. WILBER E. FARRINGTON v. DOUGLAS C. RIGG.

Supreme Court of Minnesota.

March 3, 1961.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Wilber E. Farrington, pro se, for appellant.

Walter F. Mondale, Attorney General, and Charles E. Houston, Solicitor General, for respondent, warden of the State Prison.

LOEVINGER, JUSTICE.

This is an appeal from a district court order denying a petition for a writ of habeas corpus. Petitioner is serving a life sentence for murder. The killing occurred on August 25, 1939. Construing the petition with the great liberality extended to pro se pleadings, it alleges that petitioner was illegally arrested and jailed in the early morning hours of August 26, 1939, that the arrest was without warrant or reasonable cause, and that petitioner...

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