District Court, E.D. Louisiana March 29, 1963, Misc. No. 664 (Collins v. Walker)

WEST, District Judge.

This is an application filed on behalf of petitioner, Woodman J. Collins, for the issuance of a writ of habeas corpus. Petitioner is presently incarcerated at the Louisiana State Penitentiary, under death sentence, as a result of having been convicted by a jury in a court of proper jurisdiction of the State of Louisiana on April 19, 1961 of the crime of aggravated rape.