Ward v. Turner

WADE, Chief Justice.

Defendant Turner, State Prison Warden, appeals from a special writ judgment in the Third Judicial District Court ordering plaintiff Ward’s release from the prison for lack of due process of law occurring during his trial. He was serving a term under a conviction in the’ Second Judicial District Court of rape. Such conviction was affirmed by this court on appeal,1 where a more detailed statement of the facts is available.

A young mother of three children, the youngest just recently born, was attacked by a strange man at her home about 4 o’clock in the morning, after her…