Clarence Coleman v. E. L. Maxwell, Warden, Ohio Penitentiary

Petitioner is presently serving a sentence in the Ohio Penitentiary of from one to seven years for his 1965 conviction in the Common Pleas Court of Cuy-ahoga County, Ohio, under a charge of having knowingly received stolen property. After exhausting his state remedies, petitioner filed a petition for habeas corpus in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio in February, 1966, which the court dismissed after holding an evidentiary hearing (273 F.Supp. 275 (1967)).

The material facts leading up to petitioner’s conviction are as follows: On August 31, 1964, a new…