Arthur Ben Lewis, Jr. v. Harold J. Cardwell, Warden

WILLIAM E. MILLER, Circuit Judge.

This appeal is before the Court for review of a judgment and order of the district court conditionally granting a writ of habeas corpus pursuant to the power vested in that court by 28 U.S.C. § 2241. 1 The case arises from a brutal shotgun slaying for which the appellee, Arthur Ben Lewis, Jr., was indicted, tried and subsequently found guilty of first degree murder by a state trial court jury. It is well to remember that this Court’s sole duty in this case, as in all similar eases, is to determine whether the petitioner’s constitutional rights were violated,…