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UNITED STATES EX REL. TOWNSEND v. TWOMEY

No. 67 C 389.

322 F.Supp. 158 (1971)

UNITED STATES of America ex rel. Charles TOWNSEND, No. 210838, by William R. Ming, Jr., his next friend, Petitioner, v. John J. TWOMEY, Warden of Illinois Penitentiary, Joliet-Statesville Branch, Respondent.

United States District Court, N. D. Illinois, E. D.

January 27, 1971.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William R. Ming, Jr., Sophia H. Hall and McCoy, Ming & Black, Chicago, Ill., for petitioner.

William J. Scott, Atty. Gen., and James B. Zagel, Morton E. Friedman and Donald J. Veverka, Asst. Atty. Gen., Chicago, Ill., for respondent.

MEMORANDUM OPINION

PERRY, District Judge.

The case of Charles Townsend is said to be the oldest capital punishment case in the country.

The history of the so-called Townsend case dates from the time of Charles Townsend's arrest in the early morning hours of New Year's Day 1954 and covers a span of 17 years. Petitioner (hereinafter sometimes referred to as "Townsend" or "petitioner") was indicted for the murder of Jack Boone on January 6, 1954. He...

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