McCleary v. Hudspeth, 2386.
| Decision Date | 24 December 1941 |
| Docket Number | No. 2386.,2386. |
| Citation | 124 F.2d 445 |
| Parties | McCLEARY v. HUDSPETH, Warden. |
| Court | U.S. Court of Appeals — Tenth Circuit |
C. W. Schwoerke, of Oklahoma City, Okl., for appellant.
Homer Davis, Asst. U. S. Atty., of Topeka, Kan. (Summerfield S. Alexander, U. S. Atty., of Topeka, Kan., on the brief), for appellee.
Before PHILLIPS, BRATTON, and MURRAH, Circuit Judges.
This is an appeal from a judgment denying a petition for a writ of habeas corpus.
McCleary1 was charged by two indictments returned in the District Court of the United States for the Western District of Pennsylvania2 with violations of the postal laws. He entered pleas of guilty to the several counts thereof and was sentenced to a term of imprisonment of 25 years.
After serving part of the sentences imposed, petitioner filed an application for a writ of habeas corpus in the District Court of the United States for the District of Kansas alleging that he was denied the assistance of counsel for his defense in the criminal proceedings and that the sentences imposed were void. The court found that petitioner was denied assistance of counsel for his defense in the criminal proceedings, ordered him discharged from the custody of the warden of the penitentiary in which he was confined, and delivered to the United States Marshal for the Western District of Pennsylvania.
A bench warrant was issued on the indictments and petitioner was taken into custody thereon and confined in the Erie and Allegheny County, Pennsylvania jails. On January 12, 1940, the judge of the Pennsylvania Federal Court appointed Lloyd W. Kennedy to act as counsel for petitioner on the trial of such indictments. The court later appointed A. M. Tua as additional counsel for petitioner.
On February 21, 1940, the acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Pennsylvania filed a motion to vacate the pleas of guilty theretofore entered by the petitioner to the indictments. A rule was entered upon petitioner and his counsel to show cause why the pleas of guilty should not be declared void and vacated. On February 29, 1940, Kennedy and Tua, after a full hearing on the motion, agreed that such pleas should be vacated and an order was entered vacating the pleas and the judgments entered thereon. Petitioner did not agree to but objected to the order.
On March 18, 1940, petitioner was arraigned a second time on the indictments and entered his plea of not guilty to each of the several counts thereof. On the same day, he was tried on the indictments, being represented at the trial by Kennedy. The jury returned verdicts of guilty. He was sentenced to a term of imprisonment of 25 years and was delivered into the custody of Hudspeth, warden, on March 27, 1940.
Petitioner, in his application for the writ herein, set up the foregoing facts and further alleged that he was being subjected "to double punishment for one offense"; that he was being subjected to cruel and unusual punishment; that he was tried, convicted, and sentenced without due process of law; that he was tried on two indictments at one time before one jury; that a part of the record of the Pennsylvania Federal Court was changed or altered to secure his conviction; that he was denied compulsory process to procure witnesses for his defense; that he was compelled to be a witness against himself; and that he was not permitted to consult with counsel at every stage of the proceedings. The warden filed an answer to the application in which he set up the facts above stated and denied the foregoing allegations of the application.
A writ of habeas corpus ad testificandum was issued and petitioner was brought before the court and testified at the hearing. He was represented by C. D. Holman, an attorney of Leavenworth, Kansas.
After a full hearing, the court found the facts hereinbefore recited; specifically found that petitioner was competently and capably represented by counsel appointed by the Pennsylvania Federal Court; that petitioner was afforded full opportunity to consult with such counsel; that he was not denied the assistance of counsel for his defense; that he was not denied the right to have witnesses subpoenaed in his behalf; that he did not request the court to subpoena any witness in his behalf at the expense of the government; that he was sane and rational at the time of the trial; and found the issues generally against petitioner. The findings of the trial court are fully supported by the evidence.
Petitioner urges that by subjecting him to trial on the indictments, he was twice put in jeopardy for each of the offenses charged in the indictments, contrary to the provisions of the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States.
In Johnson v. Zerbst, 304 U.S. 458, 58 S. Ct. 1019, 82 L.Ed. 1461, the court held that compliance with the provision of the Sixth Amendment guaranteeing the accused the right to have the assistance of counsel for his defense is an essential prerequisite to a Federal Court's authority to deprive the accused of his life or liberty; and that where the accused neither has been accorded nor properly waived such right, and the court nevertheless proceeds to sentence the accused, the...
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