Legal Opinion
Irvin v. Dowd
District Court, N.D. Indiana
Decided July 8, 1957No. Civ. 2250PublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
PARKINSON, District Judge. "
This is a habeas corpus proceeding initiated by the petitioner on July 2, 1957 upon the presentation thereby to this court of a verified petition for the writ alleging that the petitioner had been tried, convicted and sentenced to death by electrocution on July 9, 1957 by the Gibson Circuit Court of Gibson County, Indiana without due process of law in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United Státes and that he had exhausted all his remedies in the state courts of Indiana.
With his petition for writ of habeas corpus, he filed a…
2Cases cited13 opinions
- Reynolds v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1879
- Watts v. IndianaSupreme Court of the United States · 1949
- Stein v. New YorkSupreme Court of the United States · 1953
- Allen v. GeorgiaSupreme Court of the United States · 1897
- Pearman v. StateIndiana Supreme Court · 1954
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3Cited by10 opinions
- Irvin v. DowdSupreme Court of the United States · 1961
- Irvin v. DowdSupreme Court of the United States · 1959
- Neal Ruetz v. Russell E. Lash, WardenCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1974
- Leslie Irvin v. Alfred F. Dowd, WardenCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1959
- Leslie Irvin v. Alfred F. Dowd, WardenCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1958
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