Thompson v. Overlade, 11244.
Decision Date | 04 November 1954 |
Docket Number | No. 11244.,11244. |
Citation | 216 F.2d 492 |
Parties | Charles E. THOMPSON, Petitioner-Appellant, v. J. Ellis OVERLADE, Warden of the Indiana State Prison, Respondent-Appellee. |
Court | U.S. Court of Appeals — Seventh Circuit |
James C. Cooper, Rushville, Ind., Perry W. Cross, Muncie, Public Defender of Ind., for appellant.
Frank E. Spencer, Deputy Atty. Gen., Carl M. Franceschini, Fowler, Ind., Edwin K. Steers, Atty. Gen. of Ind., for respondent-appellee.
Before MAJOR, LINDLEY and SCHNACKENBERG, Circuit Judges.
Petitioner on February 16, 1954, filed in the District Court his verified petition for a writ of habeas corpus, directed to the respondent, claiming that his conviction as an habitual criminal, under the laws of Indiana, and incarceration in the Indiana state prison, of which the respondent is now the warden, were in violation of his rights under the thirteenth and fourteenth amendments to the constitution of the United States.
On May 28, 1954, the District Court dismissed the petition, from which order this appeal was taken.
The district judge held, and respondent contends in this court, that petitioner failed to show that he had exhausted his remedies in the courts of Indiana.
Section 2254, Title 28, U.S.C.A. provides:
It will be noted that petitioner does not allege that he exhausted or even resorted to the ordinary method of appeal1 from his conviction in the Marshall county, Indiana, circuit court. The general...
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