United States ex rel. Darcy v. Handy

HASTIE, Circuit Judge.

In this habeas corpus proceeding the relator, a Pennsylvania state prisoner under sentence of death for murder, is contending that he was tried under such prejudicial circumstances and improper *506influences that it becomes the duty of a federal court to invalidate the state conviction as a denial of due process of law and to order a new trial.

The district court originally dismissed the petition without permitting relator to introduce evidence in support of his contentions. 97 F.Supp. 930. But on appeal this court ruled “that the relator must be afforded the opportunity to…