Clarence Vernon Ferguson v. Harold J. Cardwell, Warden

Ferguson has appealed from an order of the District Court denying his application for a writ of habeas corpus.

The Grand Jury of Cuyahoga County, Ohio, in the first count of an indictment, charged him with killing in the perpetration of a robbery, and in the second count with killing with premeditated malice.

Ferguson and an accomplice were robbing a drugstore in Cleveland, Ohio; both men had guns. Ferguson shot Benjamin Kaufman in the shoulder and, when leaving the store after the rob bery, shot him in the head. It was a brutal murder.

Two counsel were appointed to defend Ferguson. A jury was…