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179 F.2d 956

Docket No. 14065.

Morton v. Steele

Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals

Decided Feb. 14, 1950.

Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals · decided 1950-02-14

Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently May 1963

3 federal appellate ·

2 counsel of record

Relies on Morton v. United States · Morton v. United States

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Opinion by (per_curiam) · Decided 1950-02-14

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¶1Appellant submitted brief pro se.

¶2Sam M. Wear, U. S. Atty., and Harry F. Murphy, Asst. U. S. Atty., Kansas City, Mo., submitted brief for appellee.

¶3Before GARDNER, Chief Judge, and WOODROUGH and RIDDICK, Circuit Judges.

¶4PER CURIAM.

¶5This is an appeal from an order of the United States District Court for the Western District of Missouri dismissing an application for a writ of habeas corpus.

¶6The application for the writ shows that petitioner was tried and convicted of sec*957ond degree murder in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, that the judgment of conviction was appealed to the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia and affirmed, Morton v. U. S., 79 U.S.App.D.C. 329, 147 F.2d 28, and that certiorari was denied by the Supreme Court, 324 U.S. 875, 876, 65 S.Ct. 1015, 89 L.Ed. 1428; that “there have been numerous other habeas corpus proceedings” by petitioner, including a petition for a writ of habeas corpus in the Supreme Court of the United States, all of which have been denied1, and that petitioner’s motion to vacate the sentence under which he is now in custody, presented to the court which imposed the sentence, has been denied by that court.2

¶7Petitioner’s application shows that the basis for the writ of habeas corpus in the present case is his contention that inadmissible evidence was received by the court in which he was convicted, that admissible evidence produced by the Government at the trial was insufficient to sustain the verdict of conviction, and that these assignments of error were presented to the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia on his appeal, were considered by that court, and denied.

¶8Petitioner insists that because in his opinion the trial court received inadmissible evidence in support of the charge for which he was convicted, he was thereby denied due process of law, and for that reason the conviction and sentence imposed upon him were in violation of the Constitution of the United States. Petitioner has the mistaken notion that on a proceeding for a writ of habeas corpus he is entitled to retry questions of fact and law which were raised and decided at the trial in which he was convicted.

¶9The District Court correctly ruled “that no facts are alleged in the petition which would authorize the issuance of a writ of habeas corpus.”

¶10The order dismissing the application is affirmed.

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