Legal Opinion
Hawk v. Olson
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided October 19, 1942No. 12335PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
SANBORN, Circuit Judge.
Henry Hawk has appealed from an order of the United States District Court for the District of Nebraska denying the issuance of a writ of habeas corpus and dismissing the petition for the writ. Hawk is an inmate of the Nebraska State Penitentiary under a life sentence for first degree murder, which sentence was imposed by the District Court of Douglas County, Nebraska, in 1936. It appears that since his incarceration in the State Penitentiary, Hawk has been a persistent and unsuccessful applicant for release on habeas corpus, this evidently being his third petition to…
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3Cited by1 opinion
- Hawk v. OlsonCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1942