Legal Opinion
Melanson v. O'brien, Warden
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided October 26, 1951No. 4568_1PublishedCited by 32 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MAGRUDER, Chief Judge.
Elmer A. Melanson is now confined in Massachusetts State Prison under concurrent sentences of 25 to 30 years for rape and for carnal" abuse of a female child, pursuant to trial and conviction in the Superior Court for Berkshire County, Mass., upon an indictment charging these offenses in separate counts. He filed in the court below a petition for a writ of habeas corpus. The district judge, without issuing the writ or a show-cause order, filed a memorandum in which he concluded that it appeared from the face of the petition that Melanson was not entitled to the relief…
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