United States ex rel. Taylor v. Reincke

BLUMENFELD, District Judge.

A petition for a writ of habeas corpus was submitted October 23, 1963 by Samuel Taylor, a state prisoner, pro se. On the same date, permission to proceed in forma pauperis was granted. An order to file a written return to show cause why the writ should not be granted and for a hearing limited to arguments thereon, without the necessity of producing the state prisoner, was issued. When the exhibits introduced at the hearing plus the state court’s habeas corpus file, which this court called for and received, disclosed a tangled web of the petitioner’s prior pro se…