Case Summary

Salvatore Giampapa was arrested on December 19th, 1923, after fleeing the scene of the murder of a man named Gibilterra. Following a preliminary hearing for the trial of Gibilterra's murder, Giampapa filed a petition for a writ of Habeas Corpus for being unlawfully detained by the Douglas County Sheriff, Michael Endres. DeGeorge claimed that he was wrongly being charged with First-degree murder on the basis of insufficient evidence and that the court had failed to follow proper procedure by not setting the price of his bail. Despite the Habeas Corpus petition being granted, his writ was denied as the judge deemed that the warrant for his arrest was valid and he should be held until the outcome of the murder trial. Giampapa remained in the custody of the Douglas Country Sheriff.

Case Information

Petition type(s)

• Carceral

Petition subtype(s)

• Murder

Sites of significance

• Douglas County Jail (Omaha, Nebraska)

Outcome

Writ denied

Fate of bound party

Remained in custody

Case Citation

Douglas County District Court, Omaha, NE, RG230: Douglas County Records, Subgroup 10: District Court, 1855-1972, Series: Criminal Appearance Docket Books, Vol. 26: ca. 1923 - Jan. 1924, p. 641; Douglas County District Court, Omaha, NE, RG230: Douglas County Records, Subgroup 10: District Court, 1855-1972, Series 7: Criminal Case Files, 1897-1920, Reel 118: 26-544 to 26-660, Dec. 14, 1923 - Jan. 9, 1924, No. 26-641

Source material(s)

Docket | Case File

Length of case file

Between 11 and 20 pages

Related petitions

• In the matter of the application of Alfio DeGeorge for a writ of Habeas Corpus

Repository(s)

• Douglas County District Court (Omaha, Nebraska)

State

• Nebraska

People

• Giampapa, Salvatore (Giampapio) (petitioner)
• O’Sullivan, Eugene D. (E. D.) (petitioner attorney)
• Mecham, George N. (petitioner attorney)
• Goss, Charles A. (judge)
• Endres, Michael (responding party)
• Endres, Michael (holding party)

• Additional parties

  Smith, Robert (clerk)

  Beal, Henry J. (county attorney)

  Barnes, George I. (court reporter)

  Graham, John M. (notary public)

  Dineen, Frank M. (judge)

  VanDeusen, Charles H. [prosecutor]

  Foster, W. A. (deputy)