Joe Emilio Selbado v. J. E. Baker, Warden

Appellant, a state prisoner, was convicted and sentenced for aggravated battery. He appeals from a denial of a petition for a writ of habeas corpus.

His primary contention concerns allegedly prejudicial pre-trial publicity which he claims deprived him of a fair and impartial trial. This claim concerns certain newspaper articles published more than two months before trial. These articles described appellant’s arrest and arraignment at which time he entered a plea of not guilty.

The release and publication of material of this nature has been approved by the American Bar Association. 1 To hold…