Legal Opinion
R. D. Evans v. Harold R. Swenson, Warden
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided February 10, 1972No. 71-1527PublishedCited by 32 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
REGISTER, Senior District Judge.
This is an appeal from an order of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri (The Honorable William H. Webster), 332 F.Supp. 360, denying petitioner’s petition for a writ of habeas corpus filed pursuant to 28 U.S.C., Section 2254. Petitioner was granted a certificate of probable cause, and the case is thus before us for review.
Appellant was found guilty of murder in the first degree by a jury, in the St. Louis Circuit Court of the State of Missouri; was sentenced to life imprisonment on January 20, 1967, and is now and has been since…
2Cases cited15 opinions
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- Brown v. AllenSupreme Court of the United States · 1953
- United States v. Kenneth George MontosCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1970
- William Lee Miller v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1968
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3Cited by32 opinions
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- United States v. Anthony CaldwellCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1992
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