Legal Opinion
Billy Joe Lewis v. State of New Mexico
Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
Decided March 23, 1970No. 461-69PublishedCited by 16 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MURRAH, Chief Judge.
While serving a Texas state imposed sentence petitioner Lewis brought this habeas corpus proceedings in the federal district court of New Mexico to test the constitutionality of a New Mexico state imposed sentence which he is not serving but on which a detainer has been lodged with the Texas warden. The appeal is from an order of the New Mexico court discharging the writ for lack of jurisdiction. The trial judge did not state his reasons for the denial of jurisdiction.
But the rather novel question presented by the briefs and argument is whether the New Mexico federal court…
2Cases cited9 opinions
- Sanders v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1963
- Hill v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1962
- Ahrens v. ClarkSupreme Court of the United States · 1948
- Word v. North CarolinaCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1969
- United States of America Ex Rel. William Van Scoten v. Commonwealth of PaCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1968
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3Cited by16 opinions
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- Larry Charles Clonce v. Rex Presley, U. S. Marshal, and the State of OklahomaCourt of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 1981
- Pittsburg & Midway Coal Mining Company v. Kee Ike Yazzie, Roselyn D. John, Romero Brown, Lewis Calamity, Peter J. Korth, and David C. BruntCourt of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 1990
- Trigg v. MoseleyCourt of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 1970
- United States of America Ex Rel. Tilden Louis Condon, and v. Don R. Erickson, Warden of the South Dakota State Penitentiary, AndCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1972
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