William H. Haggard v. C. Murray Henderson, Warden, John Taylor Aldridge v. C. Murray Henderson, Warden

O’SULLIVAN, Circuit Judge.

The appellees, John Taylor Aldridge and William H. Haggard, were, in different Tennessee state court trials, convicted and sentenced for major criminal offenses, and as habitual criminals. Following separate habeas corpus proceedings in United States District Courts of Tennessee, they were ordered released upon holdings that their primary convictions, for murder in the case of Aldridge and for burglary and larceny in the case *289of Haggard, had been obtained in violation of the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. (See Chief Judge William E. Miller’s opinion,…