Legal Opinion

Rice v. Simpson

District Court, M.D. Alabama

Decided September 26, 1967No. Civ. A. 2583-NPublishedCited by 37 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

ORDER

JOHNSON, Chief Judge.

The petitioner, William S. Rice, by leave of this Court, files in forma pauperis his application for a writ of habeas corpus. He alleges that in the Circuit Court of Pike County in February 1962, upon pleas of guilty in four separate state court criminal cases, he was sentenced to an aggregate of ten years in the state penitentiary. 1 Petitioner alleges, further, that in August 1964, his pleas and the judgment and sentence thereon in each of said state court cases were set aside by the Circuit Court of Pike County, Alabama, upon his application for a writ of error…

2Cases cited25 opinions

  1. Johnson v. ZerbstSupreme Court of the United States · 1938
  2. Gideon v. WainwrightSupreme Court of the United States · 1963
  3. Gideon v. WainwrightSupreme Court of the United States · 1963
  4. Carnley v. CochranSupreme Court of the United States · 1962
  5. Eddie W. Patton v. State of North CarolinaCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1967

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3Cited by37 opinions

  1. North Carolina v. PearceSupreme Court of the United States · 1969
  2. United States v. Daniel Gerard, United States of America v. Harold Eugene GoldsteinCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1974
  3. State v. StaffordSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1968
  4. Curtis M. Simpson, Warden, Kilby Prison, Montgomery, Alabama v. William S. RiceCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1968
  5. Ex Parte TiceSupreme Court of Alabama · 1984

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