WEINFELD, District Judge.
The petitioner, charged with murder in the first degree, was convicted of a lesser crime, manslaughter in the first degree, in the Court of General Sessions, New York County, and was sentenced in 1947 to a term of from ten to twenty years. No appeal was taken from the judgment of conviction.
He now seeks to avoid the conviction, contending that his Federally protected right to a fair trial was violated. The attack centers upon the...
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