Wilson v. Lanagan

WILSON, Circuit Judge.

This is a petition for a writ of habeas corpus. The respondent is the warden of the state prison at Charlestown in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, where the petitioner is now confined as a prisoner. The grounds alleged in the petition are that the petitioner was deprived of his right to a fair trial as guaranteed tinder the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution of the United States, U.S.C.A.Const. Amend. 14.

The petitioner alleges as facts in his petition, supported by affidavits, that on April 2, 1934, he was confined as a prisoner in the…