United States of America Ex Rel. Countee Williams v. John J. Twomey, Warden

WYZANSKI, Senior District Judge.

This is an appeal from the District Court’s denial after full hearing and findings, of release on a petition for habeas corpus attacking a sentence of imprisonment for ten to twenty years imposed by the Illinois Circuit Court for Cook County following a jury verdict finding petitioner guilty of the crime of burglary of a television set. The principal issue raised here and in the District Court is petitioner’s claim that he, in violation of the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, was denied the effective assistance…