Fisher v. United States

328 U.S. 463

66 S.Ct. 1318

90 L.Ed. 1382

FISHER

v.

UNITED STATES.

No. 122.

Argued Dec. 5, 1945.

Decided June 10, 1946.

Rehearing Denied Oct. 14, 1946.

See 67 S.Ct. 24.

Mr. Charles H. Houston, of Washington, D.C., for petitioner.

Mr. Charles B. Murray, of Washington, D.C., for respondent.

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This writ of certiorari brings here for review the sentence of death imposed upon petitioner by the District Court of the United States for the District of Columbia after a verdict of guilty on the first count of an indictment which charged petitioner with killing by choking and strangling Catherine Cooper Reardon, with…