Howard J. Conte v. Harold J. Cardwell, Warden Ohio State Penitentiary

*699FRANK W. WILSON, District Judge.

This is appeal from the order of the District Court denying a state prisoner’s petition for federal habeas corpus relief. The record upon this appeal reflects that the petitioner was convicted upon four counts of participating in two successive prison riots that occurred upon June 24 and August 20, 1968, at the Ohio State Penitentiary. As grounds for seeking federal habeas corpus relief the petitioner contends (1) that the prison riot statute upon which he was convicted was discriminatory in its terms and application, thereby denying him equal protection of the…