Rogers v. Squier

HEALY, Circuit Judge.

Appellant, an inmate of the federal penitentiary at McNeil Island, on August 30, 1948 petitioned the district court for a writ of habeas corpus alleging that in 1936 he was tried and convicted on a criminal charge in the district court of the United States for the district of Utah, sitting at Salt Lake City, and was sentenced to life imprisonment. Pie claimed the right to discharge from custody on the ground that women had been systematically and intentionally excluded from the grand jury which indicted him and the petit jury which tried him. The court issued a show cause…