Legal Opinion
Ex Parte: Chester White
Supreme Court of Florida
Decided January 25, 1938PublishedCited by 15 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtChapman, J.
It has been made to appear in this Court by petition for a writ of habeas corpus that one Chester White, on the 23rd day of June, 1935, was sentenced to be electrocuted by the Circuit Court of Union County, Florida, for the unlawful killing of Omar Wilson. From this judgment of conviction of murder in the first degree a writ of error was sued out and the judgment of conviction affirmed by this Court. See: Chester White v. State, 126 Fla. 232, 170 Sou. Rep. 700. “Petitioner alleges that lie is now being unlawfully restrained and deprived of his liberty by being held in custody for execution by…
2Cases cited17 opinions
- State ex rel. Hampton v. McClungSupreme Court of Florida · 1904
- State v. BryanSupreme Court of Florida · 1905
- People Ex Rel. Forsyth v. . Court of SessionsNew York Court of Appeals · 1894
- Griffith v. AlcockeSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1904
- Gray v. Central Florida Lumber Co.Supreme Court of Florida · 1932
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3Cited by15 opinions
- John A. Spinkellink, 1 v. Louie L. Wainwright, Secretary, Florida Department of Offender RehabilitationCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1978
- Aldana v. HolubSupreme Court of Florida · 1980
- Glock v. MooreSupreme Court of Florida · 2001
- Sullivan v. AskewSupreme Court of Florida · 1977
- Gore v. StateSupreme Court of Florida · 2012
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