State ex rel. Farrington v. Tahash

Frank T. Gallagher, Justice.

Appeal from an order of the district court denying a petition for a writ of habeas corpus.

Defendant was convicted of murder in the first degree on December 12, 1939, and was sentenced to life imprisonment. A previous petition for a writ of habeas corpus was considered in State ex rel. Farrington v. Rigg, 259 Minn. 483, 107 N. W. (2d) 841.

In his present petition defendant claims that he has been denied due process of law in that (1) he cannot obtain a copy of the transcript of his trial; (2) three of defendant’s guns, none of which was used in the crime, were…