Legal Opinion
Akins v. Texas
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided June 4, 1945No. 853Published
1Opinion of the Court 1
325 U.S. 398 (1945)
AKINS
v.
TEXAS.
No. 853.
Supreme Court of United States.
Argued April 30, May 1, 1945.
Decided June 4, 1945.
CERTIORARI TO THE COURT OF CRIMINAL APPEALS OF TEXAS.
Messrs. A.S. Baskett and W.J. Durham for petitioner.
Benjamin T. Woodall, Assistant Attorney General of Texas, with whom Grover Sellers, Attorney General, was on the brief, for respondent.
2Opinion of the Court · ReedJustice Reed
This certiorari brings here for review a judgment of the Criminal District Court of Dallas County, Texas, sentencing petitioner to execution on a jury verdict which found petitioner guilty of murder with malice and assessed the penalty at…
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