United States Ex Rel. Cooper, Relators-Appellants v. Wilfred L. Denno, Warden of Sing Sing Prison

BRENNAN, District Judge.

This appeal brings for review the order of the District Court which dismissed a writ of habeas corpus based upon the application of three petitioners (the appellants herein) who stand convicted in a state court of the crime of murder in the first degree. The sufficiency of the evidence presented by the petitioners to establish the charge of a purposeful intrusion upon their rights to confer with counsel during the course of the trial is the principal question raised.

After conviction in the County Court of Westchester County, New York, the Court of Appeals affirmed the…