Ernest Joseph Mills v. Harry C. Tinsley, Warden, Colorado State Penitentiary

HILL, Circuit Judge.

The appeal is from an order of the United States District Court for the District of Colorado denying appellant’s, petition for a Writ of Habeas Corpus. Ernest Joseph Mills, appellant and petitioner below, is an inmate of the Colorado State Penitentiary, and appellee, Harry C. Tinsley, who was respondent below, is the warden of that institution.

Mills was tried and convicted by a jury in the District Court of the City and County of Denver, in 1959, for murder. The trial commenced on September 23 and the case was submitted to the jury at 12:35 P.M. on October 2. The jury was…