Legal Opinion
Stevenson v. Boles
District Court, N.D. West Virginia
Decided September 5, 1963No. Civ. A. 1243-WPublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CHARLES F. PAUL, District Judge.
Ernest Stevenson is under sentence of death, by electrocution, for first degree murder. Execution has been stayed pending the disposition of these proceedings. The order of conviction was by the common pleas court of Cabell County on September 22, 1960, after a trial in which the jury returned a verdict of guilty of first degree murder without recommendation of mercy. The conviction was affirmed, on appeal, by the Circuit Court of Cabell County, and, ultimately, by the Supreme Court of Appeals of the State of West Virginia, on July 3, 1962, by a divided court.…
2Cases cited22 opinions
- Townsend v. SainSupreme Court of the United States · 1963
- Haynes v. WashingtonSupreme Court of the United States · 1963
- Rogers v. RichmondSupreme Court of the United States · 1961
- Bram v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1897
- Spano v. New YorkSupreme Court of the United States · 1959
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3Cited by10 opinions
- Boles v. StevensonSupreme Court of the United States · 1964
- Commonwealth Ex Rel. Butler v. RundleSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1965
- Walter Darrell Morris v. Otto C. Boles, Warden of the West Virginia State PenitentiaryCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1967
- Ernest Stevenson v. Otto C. Boles, Warden of the West Virginia State PenitentiaryCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1964
- State v. CookSupreme Court of New Jersey · 1966
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