Legal Opinion
Ex parte Melendez
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided August 27, 1938PublishedCited by 19 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WILBUR, Senior Circuit Judge.
This is an application for leave to appeal from an order denying writ of habeas corpus and for a certificate of probable cause essential thereto in the case of a conviction under a state law.
Petitioner claims that the provisions of law ('§ 1168 of the Penal Code of California, as. amended in 1931, St.1931, p. 1053) are invalid as to him because ex post facto.
The crime of which he was convicted was committed September 18, 1928. The conviction was January 7, 1929, and the sentence the same date. He was delivered to the warden of the penitentiary on January 12, 1929.…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- In Re LeeCalifornia Supreme Court · 1918
- Urquhart v. BrownSupreme Court of the United States · 1907
3Cited by19 opinions
- Nathaniel Brown v. Dr. George J. Beto, Director, Texas Department of CorrectionsCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1967
- Hawk v. OlsonCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1942
- Groseclose v. PlummerCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1939
- Demaurez v. SquierCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1941
- Ex parte JeffersonCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1939
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