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WOODRUFF v. COOK

No. GC 6943-S.

310 F.Supp. 280 (1970)

E. L. WOODRUFF, Plaintiff, v. Thomas D. COOK, Superintendent, Mississippi State Penitentiary, Defendant.

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

March 16, 1970.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

E. L. Woodruff, pro se.

A. F. Summer, Atty. Gen., State of Miss., Guy N. Rogers, Asst. Atty. Gen., State of Miss., Jackson, Miss., for defendant.

OPINION

ORMA R. SMITH, District Judge.

This habeas corpus proceeding is before the Court for disposition, after a full evidentiary hearing on the merits of the case.

The evidence before the Court shows that petitioner, E. L. Woodruff, was arrested in Sunflower County, Mississippi, on March 9, 1962 on several charges of burglary. At the time of his arrest Woodruff was out of the Mississippi State Penitentiary on an indefinite suspension of a prison...

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