Arthur Cheek v. Harold R. Swenson, Warden, Missouri State Penitentiary

The court below dismissed without prejudice appellant’s petition for writ of habeas corpus upon the ground of his failure to establish the exhaustion of post-conviction remedies currently available to him in the State of Missouri.

Appellant, a prisoner of the State of Missouri, alleges that in 1958 he was convicted of murder in Stoddard County, Missouri and was sentenced to a life term; that his appeal from this conviction was dismissed on motion of the state “due to petitioner’s inability to secure or have appointed assistance of counsel”; that beginning in October, 1964, he filed a series of…