James Edward Kennedy v. Harold J. Cardwell, Warden

WILLIAM E. MILLER, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal by James Edward Kennedy, a state prisoner, from the district court’s denial of a writ of habeas corpus. Numerous issues are raised by the petitioner but only one issue requires detailed discussion.

We are met with the question whether shackling 1 the petitioner to a uniformed deputy sheriff at his two state court jury trials denied him a fair and impartial trial by infringing the presumption of innocence in contravention of the fourteenth amendment’s due process clause of the Federal Constitution. The events preceding Kennedy’s trials began in…