Legal Opinion
United States of America Ex Rel. Bernard Cheeks, H-4596 v. Harry Russell, Warden of S. C. I. H
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Decided March 26, 1970No. 17609PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
BIGGS, Circuit Judge.
The appellant Cheeks was convicted of stabbing Jo Henry Howell in the course of a robbery committed on October 11, 1963 in Philadelphia. Howell died seven days later.1 Cheeks had among his alleged accomplices Beard,2 Smith and Dyson. These three accomplices were *649taken into custody by the Philadelphia police on or about October 24 and Cheeks and they were questioned. What later transpired and certain legal conclusions based on those operative facts are succinctly set out in the opinion of Mr. Justice Roberts in Commonwealth v. Cheeks, 429 Pa. 89, 97-98,…
2Cases cited19 opinions
- Bruton v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1968
- Jackson v. DennoSupreme Court of the United States · 1964
- Pointer v. TexasSupreme Court of the United States · 1965
- Harrington v. CaliforniaSupreme Court of the United States · 1969
- Henry v. MississippiSupreme Court of the United States · 1965
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3Cited by5 opinions
- Tobias Q. Poole v. E. P. PeriniCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1981
- United States v. Peter Moraites Appeal of John PensecCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1972
- Cheeks v. City of PhiladelphiaDistrict Court, E.D. Pennsylvania · 1971
- Commonwealth v. Grucella, Pennsylvania Court of Common Pleas, Luzerne County1971
- United States of America Ex Rel. Bernard Cheeks, H-4596 v. Harry Russell, Warden of S. C. I. HCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1970