Leroy Nash v. Warden Reincke, Connecticut State Prison

LUMBARD, Chief Judge:

Leroy Nash appeals from an order of the District Court for the District of Connecticut which dismissed without a. hearing his petition for a writ of habeas corpus. This appeal is but the most recent phase of eleven years of motions and appeals which have run the gamut of all the federal and the Connecticut courts bringing Nash’s claims, in various aspects, nine times before the state courts and six times before the federal courts.

On July 9, 1947, Nash was convicted by a jury in the Connecticut Superior Court for Fairfield County of assault with intent to murder. The…