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HANKINS v. BELL

Civ. A. No. WC 79-43-S-P.

473 F.Supp. 453 (1979)

A. Burton HANKINS, Petitioner, v. Griffin BELL, Attorney General of the United States of America, H. Brooks Phillips, United States Marshal and F. D. East, Sheriff of Lafayette County, Mississippi, Respondents.

United States District Court, N. D. Mississippi, W. D.

March 30, 1979.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Champ T. Terney, Lyon, Crosthwait, Terney & Noble, Indianola, Miss., for petitioner.

Thomas W. Dawson, Asst. U. S. Atty., N. D. Mississippi, Oxford, Miss., William A. Whitledge, Trial Atty., Tax Div., U. S. Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., for respondents.

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

ORMA R. SMITH, District Judge.

This cause having come on for hearing pursuant to a petition for a writ of habeas corpus, the order to show cause and respondents' return and answer to said petition the Court finds as follows:

1. The Court grants the unopposed motion to dismiss F. D. East as a respondent in the instant proceeding.

2. This Court expressly incorporates by reference and makes a part hereof the opinion delivered...

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