Legal Opinion
Wharton v. United States
District Court, W.D. Arkansas
Decided October 2, 1972No. FS 72-C-50PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION
PAUL X WILLIAMS, District Judge.
On a date prior to July 3, 1972 the Petitioner, Oscar Floyd Wharton, mailed to the Judge of this Court a file of handwritten papers which he entitled “PETITION FOR HABEAS CORPUS 28 U.S. C.A. 2241-2255.”
Upon examination of the papers it appeared that Petitioner was and is a prisoner in a Kansas State Penitentiary, pursuant to a sentence of a Kansas State Court, and the allegations of his self-prepared pleading did not allege facts constituting a deprivation of a civil or constitutional right.
By letter dated July 3, 1972 this Court denied…
2Cases cited16 opinions
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- United States v. TuckerSupreme Court of the United States · 1972
- Burgett v. TexasSupreme Court of the United States · 1967
- United States v. MorganSupreme Court of the United States · 1954
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3Cited by4 opinions
- Oscar Floyd Wharton v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1972
- Ex parte GarciaCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1978
- Norman Rothman v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1975
- Norman Rothman v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1975