Legal Opinion
Bowen v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided April 7, 1943No. 10534PublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
McCORD, Circuit Judge.
In 1933, in the District Court for the Northern District of Georgia, Hugh A. Bowen was convicted of murder committed in 1930 on a Government Reservation, and was sentenced to life imprisonment. Appeal was not taken, and Bowen was committed to the United States Penitentiary at Atlanta and subsequently transferred to the prison at Alcatraz, California, where he is now confined.
In 1937, while at Alcatraz, Bowen petitioned the District Judge of the Northern District of California for a writ of habeas corpus. He alleged among other things that the District Court for the…
2Cases cited12 opinions
- United States v. MayerSupreme Court of the United States · 1914
- Bowen v. JohnstonSupreme Court of the United States · 1939
- Holiday v. JohnstonSupreme Court of the United States · 1941
- Robinson v. JohnstonCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1941
- Garrison v. ReevesCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1941
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3Cited by10 opinions
- Whitehead v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1946
- Bowen v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1951
- Pueblo v. Cruzado OrtizSupreme Court of Puerto Rico · 1953
- Waldron v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1944
- United States v. BowenDistrict Court, N.D. Georgia · 1951
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