Legal Opinion
In Re Pate's Petition
Court of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma
Decided April 19, 1962No. A-13157PublishedCited by 11 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BRETT, Judge.
This is an original action for writ of habeas corpus, filed in this Court on December 4, 1961, by Gerald Pate. Petitioner alleges that he is being held in the Oklahoma State Penitentiary under a void judgment and sentence of death, entered February 9, 1961 by the district court of Pottawatomie County, Oklahoma, for the murder of Mary Jane Haygood by strangulation, committed in said county on September 16, 1959. A hearing was granted petitioner, and he was present in court for the hearing on February 20, 1962.
The conviction was appealed to this Court, and affirmed, as reported in…
2Cases cited48 opinions
- Palko v. ConnecticutSupreme Court of the United States · 1937
- McNabb v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1943
- Culombe v. ConnecticutSupreme Court of the United States · 1961
- Lisenba v. CaliforniaSupreme Court of the United States · 1942
- Rogers v. RichmondSupreme Court of the United States · 1961
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3Cited by11 opinions
- Nuckols v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma · 1984
- Castleberry v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma · 1974
- Ward v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma · 1968
- White v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma · 1969
- Gerald Pate v. Ray Page, Warden of the Oklahoma State PenitentiaryCourt of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 1963
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