Jones v. Mayo

DE VANE, District Judge.

Petitioner has filed herein a petition for writ of habeas corpus against Nathan Mayo, as custodian of Florida State Prison and L. F. Chapman, as superintendent of said prison, alleging that he is being held in violation of his constitutional rights both State and Federal and that he has been deprived of his constitutional liberties guaranteed under the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution of the United States.

Petitioner was convicted in the Criminal Court of Record of Hillsborough County, Florida on March 19, 1935 on the second count of an…