United States of America Ex Rel. Thaddeus Kendzierski v. Elza Brantley, Warden

STEVENS, Circuit Judge.

The issue raised by this appeal is whether the facts alleged in Kendzier-ski’s habeas corpus petition require an Illinois court or a federal court either to hold an evidentiary hearing or to examine the record of the proceedings which led to his incarceration in the Illinois State Penitentiary. He is presently in custody, possibly for life, as the result of a verdict returned by a jury in the First Municipal District of the Circuit Court of Cook County on July 12, 1968. He has asked three courts to review the validity of his conviction, but each, for a different reason,…