Legal Opinion
Coffelt v. State
Idaho Supreme Court
Decided April 18, 1968No. 9936PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SMITH, Chief Justice.
Appellant appeals from an order denying his petition for a writ of habeas corpus.
Appellant was sentenced in 1961 to twenty-five' years servitude in the state penitentiary following • conviction of the offense of rape, allegedly committed in Idaho County.
Appellant first filed a petition for a writ of habeas corpus in what is now the fourth judicial district of the State of Idaho, in and for Ada County; District Judge Charles R. Donaldson denied the petition. Following such denial appellant filed a second petition for writ of habeas corpus on August 7, 1965, again in the…
2Cases cited20 opinions
- Johnson v. ZerbstSupreme Court of the United States · 1938
- Sherbert v. VernerSupreme Court of the United States · 1963
- Torcaso v. WatkinsSupreme Court of the United States · 1961
- Mark O. Hatfield, Governor of the State of Oregon v. Paul R. BailleauxCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1961
- United States Ex Rel. Thurmond v. MancusiDistrict Court, E.D. New York · 1967
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3Cited by7 opinions
- Stockwell v. StateIdaho Supreme Court · 1977
- Revello v. RevelloIdaho Supreme Court · 1979
- Hernandez v. StateIdaho Supreme Court · 1979
- Freeman v. Idaho Department of CorrectionIdaho Court of Appeals · 2003
- Coffelt v. StateIdaho Supreme Court · 1968
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