Legal Opinion
Maxwell v. Bishop
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided June 1, 1970No. 13PublishedCited by 233 opinions
1Per curiam
In 1962 the petitioner was found guilty of rape by an Arkansas jury without a verdict of life imprisonment, and the trial court imposed a sentence of death.1 The Arkansas Supreme Court affirmed the judgment of conviction. 236 Ark. 694, 370 S. W. 2d 113. The petitioner then sought a writ of habeas corpus in the United *264States District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas, claiming, among other things, that his conviction and punishment were unconstitutional in that (1) the jury had determined the two issues of guilt or innocence and of a life or death sentence in a single proceeding,…
2Cases cited4 opinions
- Witherspoon v. IllinoisSupreme Court of the United States · 1968
- Boulden v. HolmanSupreme Court of the United States · 1969
- William L. Maxwell v. O. E. Bishop, Superintendent, Arkansas State PenitentiaryCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1968
- Maxwell v. StateSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1963
3Cited by233 opinions
- Wainwright v. WittSupreme Court of the United States · 1985
- McGautha v. CaliforniaSupreme Court of the United States · 1971
- State v. JenkinsOhio Supreme Court · 1984
- Gray v. MississippiSupreme Court of the United States · 1987
- John A. Spinkellink, 1 v. Louie L. Wainwright, Secretary, Florida Department of Offender RehabilitationCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1978
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