Legal Opinion
Thomas E. Briscoe v. United States
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided September 20, 1957No. Misc. 855PublishedCited by 8 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BAZELON, Circuit Judge.
This case is before us, as a regularly designated division of the court hearing motions, on a petition for leave to appeal in forma pauperis from a conviction for arson (entered on a plea of guilty) and on the written opposition thereto filed by the Government. The statement of the case which follows is drawn from the allegations of the petition which the Government admits, either specifically or by failure to controvert, as supplemented by the original papers in the District Court’s file of the case.
Petitioner, found at the scene of a fire in a vacant house when fire…
2Cases cited7 opinions
- Davis v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1895
- Durham v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1954
- Tatum v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1951
- Charles W. Douglas v. United States of America, (Two Cases)Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1956
- Bergen v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1944
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3Cited by8 opinions
- Maurice I. Millard v. David W. Harris, Acting Superintendent, St. Elizabeths HospitalCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1968
- Thomas E. Briscoe v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1958
- United States v. AmburgeyDistrict Court, District of Columbia · 1960
- Anderson Jones v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1959
- Anderson Jones v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1959
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