Legal Opinion
United States Ex Rel. Jackson v. Brady
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Decided February 9, 1943No. 5034PublishedCited by 49 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SOPER, Circuit Judge.
The appellants, who are Negroes, complain of the dismissal by the District Court of their petition for habeas corpus wherein they sought release from a sentence of death imposed by the Criminal Court of Baltimore after a conviction by a jury of murder in the first degree committed in the course of an attempted robbery. The judgment was affirmed on appeal by the Court of Appeals of Maryland. Jackson v. State, 26 A.2d 815. The point now raised is that the defendants in the Criminal Court were deprived of their constitutional rights at the trial in that there was racial…
2Cases cited24 opinions
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- Glasser v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1942
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- Patton v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1930
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3Cited by49 opinions
- Dorsey v. GillCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1945
- Giles v. StateCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1962
- United States of America Ex Rel. Robert Lee Goldsby v. William Harpole, Superintendent of the Mississippi State Penitentiary, Parchman, MississippiCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1959
- Howell v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1949
- Sanderlin v. SmythCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1943
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