Legal Opinion
Matter of Morhous v. N.Y. Supreme Court
New York Court of Appeals
Decided June 14, 1944PublishedCited by 146 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Lehman, Ch. J.
The respondent B. Gordon Whitman is imprisoned in Great Meadow prison under a sentence imposed by the Court of General Sessions in New York County in 1931 after he had been convicted in that court of the crime of manslaughter in the first degree. In 1941 he applied for a writ'of habeas corpus, alleging in his petition that his conviction was obtained by perjured testimony knowingly used by the prosecution; that testimony in his favor was suppressed by the prosecution; and that newspaper articles containing the malicious falsehood that he had previously murdered an officer of the…
2Cases cited13 opinions
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- Frank v. MangumSupreme Court of the United States · 1915
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- Ex Parte Tobias WatkinsSupreme Court of the United States · 1830
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3Cited by146 opinions
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