William Estep and Dora Estep v. J. E. (Bill) Decker, Sheriff of Dallas County, Texas

RIVES, Circuit Judge.

Appellants, husband and wife, were alone convicted in an Illinois state court, under that State’s Criminal Conspiracy Act, Ill.Rev.Stat.1955, c. 38, § 138 et seq., for conspiring to violate certain provisions of the Illinois Medical Practice Act, Ill.Rev.Stat.1955, c. 91, § 1 et seq., and both were fined and received penitentiary sentences. Their convictions were affirmed by an Illinois appellate court in People v. Estep, 346 Ill.App. 132, 104 N.E.2d 562. They subsequently exhausted their state remedies by petitions for review of that decision in the Supreme Court of…