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Murphy v. Warden of Clinton State Prison, 1940 — 309 U.S. 661 · caselaw · US
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Murphy v. Warden of Clinton State Prison
309 U.S. 661·Supreme Court of the United States·1940
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Opinion
No. 685.
Murphy v. Warden of Clinton State Prison.
February 12, 1940.
Mr. Joseph G. M. Browne for petitioner.
Messrs. John J. Bennett, Jr., Attorney General of New York, and Henry Epstein, Solicitor General, for respondent.
[MAJORITY]
Petition for writ of cer-tiorari to the Circuit Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, and motion for leave to proceed further in forma pauperis, denied.