United States Ex Rel. Thompson v. Dye

The appellant is a prisoner under sentence of death imposed by a Pennsylvania court. He appeals to us from a judgment of the District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania, entered after full hearing, denying him a-writ of habeas corpus, 113 F.Supp. 807. Two deficiencies of the present submission, one not correctible here, prevent us from making a decisive disposition of the litigation at this time.

First, the principal contention of the petitioner in the District Court was-that the state officer who prosecuted him had been informed before trial by William Heagy, one of the two police…