Minnesota ex rel. Payne v. Rigg

DEVITT, District Judge.

This matter comes before the Court on a petition for a writ of habeas corpus filed by the relator, an inmate of the Minnesota State Prison, on his own behalf.

Relator claims that he has been illegally confined at the State Prison since 1934, pursuant to a warrant of commitment issued by the District Court Clerk of Lake of the Woods County, Minnesota. He claims that he was tried and convicted of murder, but that his constitutional rights were deprived him when the presiding judge denied his request for a poll of the jury, pursuant to what is now M. S.A. § 631.16,…