Legal Opinion
Ex parte Caesar
District Court, N.D. Texas
Decided May 20, 1939PublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ATWELL, District Judge.
There is presented to the court, without having been filed with the Clerk, an unverified petition for a writ of habeas corpus, on behalf of Johnnie Caesar. The petition is signed by Tom B. Scott, and John Jasper, as attorneys for the petitioner.
It is alleged that Caesar is confined in the state penitentiary. That the date of his electrocution is tomorrow, the 21st day of May, 1939, shortly after midnight; that the offense for which he has been convicted is that of murdering a negro woman. That he is ignorant, and penniless; that he was unable to employ counsel at his…
2Cases cited6 opinions
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- Carruthers v. ReedCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1939
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3Cited by2 opinions
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