United States ex rel. Lesser v. Hunt

BURKE, District Judge.

The petitioner herein is held as a prisoner in the Attica State Prison pursuant to a judgment and commitment of The Court of General Sessions of the County of New York, under date of March 16th, 1932, under a sentence of imprisonment in a State prison for a term of fifty years. ’The petition for a writ of habeas corpus herein *647is made upon the ground that the commitment by which the prisoner is being detained was obtained by fraud and that the trial prosecutor by his sworn statement conceded the fact that the conviction resulted from perjured evidence and that by reason…