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STATE OF LOUISIANA v. WALKER

No. 674.

217 F.Supp. 168 (1963)

STATE OF LOUISIANA ex rel. James BYRNES, Petitioner, v. Victor G. WALKER, Warden, Louisiana State Penitentiary.

United States District Court E. D. Louisiana, Baton Rouge Division.

May 10, 1963.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edward Donald Moseley, Baton Rouge, La., appointed by the Court, for petitioner.

Jack P. F. Gremillion, Atty. Gen. of Louisiana, and Scallan Walsh, Asst. Atty. Gen., Baton Rouge, La., for defendant.

WEST, District Judge.

Petitioner, James Byrnes, was charged in a Louisiana State Court with having committed the crime of simple burglary. He ultimately pleaded guilty and was sentenced to serve six years in the Louisiana State Penitentiary. He now applies to this Court for the issuance of a writ of habeas corpus, contending that he has been, and is being denied the constitutional rights guaranteed him by the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution...

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