Charles E. Whitsell v. E. P. Perini, Superintendent, Marion Correctional Institution

This is an appeal by Charles E. Whit-sell, petitioner-appellant, from an order of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio, Western Division, denying his petition for a writ of habeas corpus. The appellant is confined in the Marion Correctional Institution at Marion, Ohio, serving a sentence of one to fifteen years. He was tried before a jury and found guilty of forcibly breaking and entering an uninhabited building in the night season with intent to steal property of value.

The appellant claims that he was questioned without an attorney being present in violation of…