Legal Opinion
Lea Spears v. Circuit Court, Ninth Judicial District, Warren County, State of Mississippi
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided August 11, 1975No. 74-3762PublishedCited by 8 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
GEWIN, Circuit Judge:
The instant appeal, the latest installment in the legal saga of the appellant, Lea . Spears, is from the denial of her petition for the writ of habeas corpus. 28 U.S.C. § 2241 et seq. This litigation has a prodigious history beginning in 1969 when Spears was convicted in the Circuit Court of Warren County, Mississippi, of performing an abortion in violation of § 2223 Miss.Code 1942 (Supp. 1966) [now codified as § 97-3-3 Miss. Code 1972]. She was sentenced to a term of 10 years but the Supreme Court of Mississippi reversed her conviction, Spears v. State, 241 So.2d 148…
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