Legal Opinion
State v. Freeman
Oregon Supreme Court
Decided September 19, 1962PublishedCited by 36 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtGoodwin, J.
A jury having found Jeannace June Freeman guilty of first-degree murder, without recommending life imprisonment, the judgment of death was mandatory. Oregon Constitution, Art I, § 37. The appeal is, accordingly, automatic. ORS 138.410.
On May 11, 1961, the bodies of two children were found at the bottom of Crooked River canyon in Jefferson County some 300 feet directly below a scenic viewpoint in Peter Skene Ogden State Park. Within a few days the children were tentatively identified as those of one Gertrude Nunez, of Oakland, California. On the evening of May 16, Miss Freeman and Mrs. Nunez…
2Cases cited25 opinions
- McNabb v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1943
- Mallory v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1957
- Hamilton v. AlabamaSupreme Court of the United States · 1961
- Leland v. OregonSupreme Court of the United States · 1952
- Crooker v. CaliforniaSupreme Court of the United States · 1958
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3Cited by36 opinions
- Boulden v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1965
- State v. GreenOregon Supreme Court · 1975
- State v. FlettOregon Supreme Court · 1963
- State v. MadisonOregon Supreme Court · 1981
- State v. OlandCourt of Appeals of Oregon · 1969
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