United States ex rel. Leguillou v. Davis

An application for á writ of habeas corpus has been made to me as a circuit judge of the Third Circuit by the relator, Tomas Leguillou, a prisoner confined in the Richmond Penitentiary in St. Croix, Virgin Islands, under a sentence of 14 years at hard labor imposed by the District *304Court of the Virgin Islands upon his conviction by that court of murder in the second degree. The relator, who is a native of Puerto Rico, asserts that his conviction was invalid because he was deprived thereby of his liberty without due process of law and was denied the equal protection of the laws in violation of…