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Harpole, Superintendent, Mississippi State Penitentiary, v. United States ex rel. Goldsby, 1959 — 361 U.S. 838 · caselaw · US
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Harpole, Superintendent, Mississippi State Penitentiary, v. United States ex rel. Goldsby
361 U.S. 838·Supreme Court of the United States·1959
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Opinion
No. 112.
Harpole, Superintendent, Mississippi State Penitentiary, v. United States ex rel. Goldsby.
Joe T. Patterson, Attorney General of Mississippi, J. R. Griffin and John H. Price, Jr., Assistant Attorneys General, and Ross.R. Barnett for petitioner.. George N. Leighton for respondent.
[MAJORITY]
Motion o respondent ft. rive to proceed in forma pau-peris granted. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court of Anneals for the Fifth Circuit denied.