Legal Opinion
Luther Wesley Wilson v. Maurice H. Sigler, Warden, Nebraska State Penitentiary
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided January 20, 1961No. 16687_1PublishedCited by 8 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
JOHNSEN, Chief Judge.
Petitioner is under conviction and sentence of death by the state courts of Nebraska for the crime of murder. The opinion of the Nebraska Supreme Court, reviewing the trial proceedings, holding them to be without violation of due process or other error of substance, and making affirmance of the judgment, is reported in Wilson v. State, 170 Neb. 494, 103 N.W.2d 258. A petition for writ of certiorari to that decision was denied by the United States Supreme Court in Wilson v. State, 81 S.Ct. 178.
Thereafter, petitioner sought and was granted leave to file a forma-pauperis…
2Cases cited8 opinions
- Ashcraft v. TennesseeSupreme Court of the United States · 1944
- Harris v. South CarolinaSupreme Court of the United States · 1949
- Parker v. StateNebraska Supreme Court · 1957
- Wilson v. NebraskaNebraska Supreme Court · 1960
- Stagemeyer v. StateNebraska Supreme Court · 1937
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3Cited by8 opinions
- Rhodes v. HoustonDistrict Court, D. Nebraska · 1962
- Granader v. Public BankCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1969
- Ernest Stevenson v. Otto C. Boles, Warden of the West Virginia State PenitentiaryCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1964
- Granader v. Public BanksCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1969
- Luther Wesley Wilson v. Maurice Sigler, WardenCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1971
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