United States ex rel. Luscomb v. New York

LEVET, District Judge.

This is a petition for a writ of habeas corpus brought by Leroy Riley Luscomb, who is presently confined in Sing Sing Prison, Ossining, New York, where he is serving a term of life imprisonment upon a conviction for felony murder committed in the State of New York. The conviction, for which the petitioner was sentenced to death in the electric chair and which was subsequently commuted by the Governor of the State of New York to life imprisonment, was upheld by the New York Court of Appeals in 292 N.Y. 390, 55 N.E.2d 469. Petitioner *2charges lack of due process of law…