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KING v. COOK

No. GC 6828.

287 F.Supp. 269 (1968)

Willie Edward KING, Petitioner, v. Thomas B. COOK, Superintendent of Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman, Mississippi, Respondent.

United States District Court N. D. Mississippi, Greenville Division.

July 12, 1968.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Martha M. Wood, Jackson, Miss., for petitioner.

Joe T. Patterson, Atty. Gen., State of Miss., Jackson, Miss., for respondent.

MEMORANDUM OPINION

KEADY, Chief Judge.

Willie Edward King was confined to the Mississippi State Penitentiary upon a criminal conviction, at the time of filing in this court of his petition for habeas corpus and for leave to proceed in forma pauperis. Invoking the authority of 28 U.S.C. § 2241 (1964), petitioner alleges that his custody is in violation of his rights under the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution.

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