Legal Opinion
Lansdown v. Swenson
District Court, W.D. Missouri
Decided May 20, 1971No. Civ. A. No. 19203-3PublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
JUDGMENT DENYING PETITION FOR HABEAS CORPUS
WILLIAM H. BECKER, Chief Judge.
Petitioner, a state convict confined in the Missouri State Penitentiary, petitions this Court for a writ of federal habeas corpus adjudicating as invalid his state conviction of “grand stealing.” Petitioner also requests leave to proceed in forma pauperis. Leave to proceed in forma pauperis has been previously granted.
Petitioner states that he was convicted by a jury in the Circuit Court of Wright County of the offense of “grand stealing”; that he was sentenced on that conviction on May 20, 1968, to a term of ten years’…
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