United States ex rel. Parker v. Ragen

MINTON, Circuit Judge.

We have for answer first the question of whether a writ of habeas corpus shall issue to try and determine the validity of one sentence of life imprisonment for armed robbery while the petitioner is serving at the same time another sentence of one year to life imprisonment for a like offense, which sentence is admittedly valid. Secondly, if the writ may issue, has the petitioner been denied due process under the Fourteenth Amendment in the trial and conviction for the second offense?

Petitioner was convicted February 14, 1919, of armed robbery in the Criminal. Court of…