s of Recent Cases Habeas Corpus in the Federal Courts: Wade v. Mayo Overruled?-Must a person who has been denied a writ of habeas corpus by the highest state tribunal petition the United States Supreme Court for certiorari before a lower federal court can consider his application for habeas corpus on its merits? This question was before the United States Supreme Court in Wade v. Mayo (334 U.S. 672) and was reconsidered recently in Darr v. Buford (339 U.S. 200). Here the petitioner, an inmate o-f the Oklahoma state penitentiary, had applied to the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals for habeas corpus on the grounds that he did not have sufficient funds to procure counsel This content downloaded from 207.46.13.124 on Wed, 22 Jun 2016 05:50:44 UTC All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms