United States of America Ex Rel. Robert Loray v. Howard Yeager, Warden, New Jersey State Prison, Trenton

OPINION OF THE COURT

HASTIE, Circuit Judge.

This appeal by a state prisoner, who is serving a life sentence for murder, from a denial of his petition for habeas corpus presents the question whether the district court erred in deciding against the appellant his claim that a confession used against him at his trial had been coerced. The district court did not hear testimony but decided upon the basis of the state record that the state courts had properly ruled against the claim of coercion after full hearing and upon an adequate supporting record.

The appellant had been tried before the decisions…