Duguay v. State

On appeal from the order of dismissal of a petition for the statutory writ of post-conviction habeas corpus.

The petitioner was convicted of murder in the Superior Court in Androscoggin County in 1960 and is at present serving the life sentence there imposed upon him. He attempted unsuccessfully to have his conviction set aside on appeal (State v. Duguay, 158 Me. 61, 178 A.2d 129 (1962)) and he has three times previously sought post-conviction relief. His last previous petition for post-conviction habeas corpus was dismissed by a single justice in the Superior Court on May 13, 1964. There was…