Legal Opinion
MacKreth v. Wilson
Alabama Court of Appeals
Decided May 11, 1943No. 3 Div. 855PublishedCited by 18 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BRICKEN, Presiding Judge.
Gerald Churchill Mackreth, alias J. Sims, alias Gerald Charles McDonald, was duly indicted, tried and convicted at the Fall Term, 1938, in the circuit court of Clark County, Alabama, of obtaining property by false pretense, an offense denounced by Section 4131, Alabama Code 1928, Code 1940, Tit. 14, § 209. He was sentenced to imprisonment in the penitentiary for a term of seven and one-half years minimum, and eight years as a maximum, and committed to Kilby prison.
On the 27th day of November, 1942, the prisoner filed a petition for a writ of habeas corpus in the…
2Cases cited4 opinions
- Ex parte BizzellSupreme Court of Alabama · 1895
- Bray v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1903
- Sims v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1940
- Sims v. StateAlabama Court of Appeals · 1940
3Cited by18 opinions
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- Faretta v. CaliforniaSupreme Court of the United States · 1975
- Argo v. StateAlabama Court of Appeals · 1961
- Allen v. StateAlabama Court of Appeals · 1961
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