United States ex rel. McCode v. Myers

GRIM, District Judge.

In a habeas corpus petition filed in this court, relator, a state prisoner, contended that his constitutional rights had been violated by:(1) the alleged denial of assistance of counsel at his preliminary hearing on a charge of murder in 1947 and at the subsequent coroner’s hearing(2) the alleged systematic exclusion of negroes from the grand jury that indicted him(3) the alleged introduction into evidence of the guilty pleas allegedly made at the preliminary hearing and the coroner’s hearing and(4) the alleged introduction into evidence of a coerced confession

This court…