Legal Opinion
Griffith v. Rhay
District Court, E.D. Washington
Decided September 30, 1959No. 1428PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POWELL, Chief Judge.
Petition for a writ of habeas corpus has been filed by Henry M. Griffith, a prisoner under sentence of death, confined within this district in the Washington State Penitentiary at Walla Walla County, Washington. He was convicted of murder in the first degree in the County of Adams, State of Washington, by a jury verdict rendered on March 6, 1957.
On appeal to the Supreme Court of thé State of Washington, judgment of conviction was affirmed on August 7, 1958. 1 All of the judges sitting concurred in the opinion. A petition for rehearing was denied on October 7, 1958.
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2Cases cited30 opinions
- Powell v. AlabamaSupreme Court of the United States · 1932
- Brown v. AllenSupreme Court of the United States · 1953
- McNabb v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1943
- Lisenba v. CaliforniaSupreme Court of the United States · 1942
- Mallory v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1957
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3Cited by6 opinions
- Henry M. Griffith v. B. J. Rhay, as Superintendent of the Washington State Penitentiary at Walla Walla, WashingtonCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1960
- United States v. Bobby Eugene HardenCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1973
- Campbell v. StateCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1965
- Madison v. TahashDistrict Court, D. Minnesota · 1966
- In RE WHITE v. RhayWashington Supreme Court · 1965
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