United States of America Ex Rel. Cleveland Thompson v. Charles L. Dye, Warden, Allegheny County Jail, Pittsburgh, Pa

This case comes to us on an appeal from a denial of writ of habeas corpus. The relator, Cleveland Thompson, was convicted of murder after a trial in a Pennsylvania court in Allegheny County. From a judgment imposing sentence of death he appealed to the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania. That court affirmed the judgment and sentence. Commonwealth v. Thompson, 1951, 367 Pa. 102, 79 A.2d 401, certi-orari denied 1951, 342 U.S. 835, 72 S.Ct. 58, 96 L.Ed. 631. See also 1952, 342 U.S. 929, 72 S.Ct. 370, 96 L.Ed. 692. Then Thompson sought habeas corpus in the United States District Court for the Western…