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154 F.2d 500

Docket No. 8953.

Ex parte Whistler

Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals

Decided Feb. 6, 1946.

Writ of Certiorari Denied March 25, 1946.

Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals · decided 1946-02-06

Cited by 1 later decisions — most recently August 1948

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Opinion by (per_curiam) · Decided 1946-02-06

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¶1See 66 S.Ct 822.

¶2Percy Arthur Whistler, of Waupun, Wis., in pro. per.

¶3John E. Martin, Atty. Gen., and William A. Platz, Asst. Atty. Gen., for appellee.

¶4Before EVANS and KERNER, Circuit Judges.

¶5PER CURIAM.

¶6This is an appeal in forma pauperis in a habeas corpus case wherein the Attorney General of Wisconsin has moved to dismiss the appeal because of the lack of a certificate of probable cause and because of the failure of petitioner to exhaust state court remedies.

¶7The Facts. Appellant was sentenced to life imprisonment, in 1933, by a Wisconsin state court, for the murder of his sweetheart. He alleges he made application for habeas corpus to the lower Wisconsin courts and to the Wisconsin Supreme Court, but he made no application for certiorari to the United States Supreme Court from any of these decisions which denied his application for writs of habeas corpus.

¶8United States District Judge Duffy reviewed the facts and the law in the instant case in a careful opinion and denied the habeas corpus. 65 F.Supp. 40.

¶9Appellant’s basis for habeas ' corpus seems to be that such waiver of jury trial as he made was illegal. He also objects to his sanity trial being held contemporaneous with the murder trial. He objects because his criminal sentence states the killing was “without any excuse or justification of any kind” whereas he informed the District Attorney of the precise nature of the dispute with his girl friend.

¶10It seems clear that the appeal must be dismissed for lack of a certificates of probable cause. Although not requested so to do, both of us have considered the record, and each of us finds ourself unable and unwilling to sign this necessary certificate of probable cause.

¶11The appeal is Dismissed.

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