Lambus v. Kaiser

Allen Lambus, a seventy-three year old colored man, brings this suit for habeas corpus. He formerly lived in Mississippi. He served fourteen years in the Mississippi State Penitentiary for manslaughter and later seven years for attempted rape. After his release on the latter sentence he moved to Missouri.

In the afternoon of July 16, 1943 in a cornfield he struck Juanita Harris, a colored girl of thirteen, with a hay-fork and with his fist and knocked her down. The prongs of the hay-fork pierced her neck. He left her on the ground bleeding from the wounds. He went home. The next morning…