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MITCHELL v. HENSLEE

No. PB 62 C 24.

208 F.Supp. 533 (1962)

Lonnie MITCHELL, Petitioner, v. Lee HENSLEE, Superintendent of Arkansas State Penitentiary, Respondent.

United States District Court E. D. Arkansas, Pine Bluff Division.

September 6, 1962.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Delector Tiller, Christopher C. Mercer, Jr., Little Rock, Ark., for petitioner.

J. Frank Holt, Atty. Gen., Thorp Thomas, Asst. Atty. Gen., Little Rock, Ark., for respondent.

YOUNG, District Judge.

This is a habeas corpus proceeding prosecuted in forma pauperis by Lonnie Mitchell, a male Negro, who in 1959 received a death sentence from the Circuit Court of Union County, Arkansas, following his conviction of having raped a 77 year old crippled white woman. The conviction was affirmed by the Supreme Court of Arkansas. Mitchell v. State, 230 Ark. 894, 327 S.W.2d 384. No application for certiorari was made...

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