Legal Opinion
Application of Woods
District Court, N.D. California
Decided July 31, 1957No. Civ. 7561PublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HALBERT, District Judge.
Petitioner has heretofore filed with this Court a petition for a writ of habeas corpus. Upon examination of the petition, this Court issued an Order to Show Cause on June 19, 1957. Respondent has filed a return to the Order to Show Cause and a motion to dismiss, in answer to which, petitioner filed his traverse.
From the record it appears that petitioner was convicted in the Superior Court of the State of California, in and for the County of San Diego, of illegal possession of a narcotic, a violation of § 11500 of the California Health and Safety Code. The trial was…
2Cases cited15 opinions
- Weeks v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1914
- Rochin v. CaliforniaSupreme Court of the United States · 1952
- Brown v. AllenSupreme Court of the United States · 1953
- United States v. RabinowitzSupreme Court of the United States · 1950
- Wolf v. ColoradoSupreme Court of the United States · 1949
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3Cited by10 opinions
- Barbara Jean Henderson v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1967
- Oscar John Huguez v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1969
- John Emilio Blefare and Donald Michel v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1966
- Leon Brent v. Wingate White, Warden, Louisiana State PenitentiaryCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1968
- Commonwealth v. TanchynSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1963
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