Roy H. Christopher v. The State of Iowa

Appellant, an inmate of the Iowa State Penitentiary, filed suit under the federal •declaratory judgment statute, 28 U.S. ■C.A. §§ 2201-2202, seeking to have it •declared (a) that he had been denied due process and’ equal protection by the State ■of Iowa, in that the Supreme Court of Iowa had failed to render any decision •on a petition for certiorari filed by him on July 19, 1962, and heard by the court “on or about November 22, 1962”; and (b) that such failure operated to deprive him of a review of his conviction, or the means of obtaining such a review, and entitled it to be decreed, “in…