Legal Opinion
Leslie Douglas Ashley and Carolyn Lima v. The State of Texas
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided July 30, 1963No. 20457PublishedCited by 69 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
TUTTLE, Chief Judge.
This is an appeal from the denial by the district court of the appellants’ petition for habeas corpus based on their allegations that in their trial and conviction for murder and sentence to death, they had been denied constitutional rights under the Fourteenth Amendment to the Federal Constitution.
The facts upon which the appellants base their claim for a new trial in the Texas State Court are not seriously in dispute. The appellants were tried for the murder of a real estate man in the city of Houston, whose killing they admitted, after, or during, a three-party sexual…
2Cases cited6 opinions
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- Pyle v. KansasSupreme Court of the United States · 1942
- Alcorta v. TexasSupreme Court of the United States · 1957
- United States of America Ex Rel. Cleveland Thompson v. Charles L. Dye, Warden, Allegheny County JailCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1955
- Bobby, Jack Howard v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1956
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3Cited by69 opinions
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- United States v. William Herbert Greene, IIICourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1974
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- Means v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1968
- Briddle v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1987
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