United States ex rel. Jackson v. Ragen

MINTON, Circuit Judge.

The petitioner-appellant filed in the District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, Eastern Division, a petition for habeas corpus against the respondent, warden of the Illinois State Penitentiary at Joliet, Illinois. The petitioner had filed his petition first in the Supreme Court of Illinois, where it was denied. He had then petitioned the Supreme Court of the United States for certiorari, which was denied. *191In the District Court the respondent filed a motion to dismiss which was sustained, but the court granted the petitioner’s motion for a certificate of…