Legal Opinion
Massey v. Moore, Warden
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided September 10, 1953No. 14319PublishedCited by 13 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HUTCHESON, Chief Judge.
The petitioner having suffered two previous convictions for other felonies, is serving a compulsory life sentence in the Texas State Penitentiary on a judgment of conviction for the offense of robbery by assault.
Convicted on March 11, 1941, he did not appeal. Beginning, however, in March, 1943, he has made persistent and repeated apjplications in many courts, both state and federal.1
When the present petition for habeas corpus was presented to him, the district judge, in a memorandum and order reviewing his first proceeding in the federal court, 5 Cir., 173 F.2d 980, and…
2Cases cited24 opinions
- Betts v. BradySupreme Court of the United States · 1942
- Uveges v. PennsylvaniaSupreme Court of the United States · 1948
- Gallegos v. NebraskaSupreme Court of the United States · 1951
- Gibbs v. BurkeSupreme Court of the United States · 1949
- Palmer v. AsheSupreme Court of the United States · 1951
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3Cited by13 opinions
- Massey v. MooreSupreme Court of the United States · 1954
- Huey R. Lee v. State of AlabamaCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1967
- Edward Morgan MacKenna v. O. B. Ellis, Director, Texas Department of CorrectionsCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1959
- William Estep v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1958
- Huey R. Lee, Jr. v. Martin J. Wiman, Warden, Etc., and A. Frank Lee, as Commissioner of the Board of Corrections of the State of AlabamaCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1960
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