Legal Opinion
Petition of Sawyer
District Court, E.D. Wisconsin
Decided January 27, 1955No. Civ. A. 6477PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
DUFFY, Acting District Judge.
This is a petition for a writ of habeas corpus. Petitioner is a Milwaukee automobile dealer who was convicted in a Wisconsin State court of violation of § 346.06, Wisconsin Statutes. The charge was that he gave Albert J. Krause, then a Milwaukee alderman, a discount on a 1949 Buick automobile, said discount amounting to about $600 (Count 1), and $3,000 in cash (Count 2), with the intention of influencing Krause’s judgment and official actions to prevent the proposed demolition by the Milwaukee city authorities of a building then occupied by Sawyer Downtown Motors,…
2Cases cited29 opinions
- Johnson v. ZerbstSupreme Court of the United States · 1938
- Brown v. AllenSupreme Court of the United States · 1953
- Mooney v. HolohanSupreme Court of the United States · 1935
- Wolf v. ColoradoSupreme Court of the United States · 1949
- Darr v. BurfordSupreme Court of the United States · 1950
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3Cited by5 opinions
- Sterling H. Nickens v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1963
- Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus for Walter J. Sawyer. Walter J. Sawyer v. Max A. Barczak, Sheriff of Milwaukee CountyCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1956
- Galloway v. BurkeDistrict Court, E.D. Wisconsin · 1969
- Sterling H. Nickens v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1963
- Taustine v. ThompsonCourt of Appeals of Kentucky · 1959