United States Ex Rel. Garrett v. Anderson

OPINION AND ORDER

LATCHUM, Chief Judge.

John E. Garrett, Jr., a state prisoner and the petitioner in this habeas corpus proceeding, was convicted by a jury on April 9, 1973, in the Superior Court of the State of Delaware of murder in the second degree. Thereafter, he was sentenced to life imprisonment. His conviction was affirmed by the Delaware Supreme Court on April 25, 1974. Garrett v. State, 320 A.2d 745 (Del.Sup.1974).

Here petitioner raises two points: first, he contends that the refusal of the state trial court to grant bifurcated or sequential trials on the issues of petitioner’s guilt…