Legal Opinion
Brown v. Cain
District Court, E.D. Pennsylvania
Decided June 14, 1944No. M-1075PublishedCited by 16 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
KIRKPATRICK, District Judge.
The relator James H. 'Brown, a guard, shot and killed a man named Franklin Giddings in the shipyard of the Sun Shipbuilding Dry Dock Co. at Chester, Pennsylvania. He was arrested, indicted by the Grand Jury of Delaware County for murder and was in the custody of the respondent, the warden of the County prison.
He applied for this writ, alleging that he was in custody for an act done in pursuance of a law of the United States, Title 28, Sec. 453, U.S.C.A.
The relator has been since December 21, 1942, an enrolled temporary member of the Coast Guard Reserve, with the…
2Cases cited5 opinions
- Ex Parte RoyallSupreme Court of the United States · 1886
- United States Ex Rel. Drury v. LewisSupreme Court of the United States · 1906
- Castle v. LewisCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1918
- In re WaiteDistrict Court, N.D. Iowa · 1897
- In re FairU.S. Circuit Court for the District of Nebraska · 1900
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