United States ex rel. Thompson v. Nierstheimer

MINTON, Circuit Judge.

The petitioner on July 6, 1931, was convicted of first degree murder in the Criminal Court of Cook County, Illinois, and sentenced to serve one hundred years in the penitentiary. In his petition for habeas corpus he alleges that the respondent restrains him, pursuant to a judgment of the Cook *88County Criminal Court based upon this conviction, in violation of the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. The denial of due process, the petitioner contends, resulted from the expeditiousness of his trial, the denial of counsel of his choice, and also from the…