Legal Opinion

Toussaint v. State

Supreme Judicial Court of Maine

Decided February 19, 1970PublishedCited by 11 opinions

1Per curiam

This post-conviction habeas corpus is before us on appeal from dismissal of the petition.

We adopt the following “Memorandum of Law and Decision” of the Justice sitting in the Superior Court as the Opinion of the Court.

“The petitioner seeks his enlargement from the Maine State Prison through post-conviction habeas corpus proceedings under 14 M.R.S.A. §§ 5502-5508. By-passing his plea of guilty to the indictment under lying the sentence under which he is now confined to the prison, he presently claims that said indictment is fatally insufficient in law to support a charge of crime under 15…

2Cases cited13 opinions

  1. Smith v. StateSupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1950
  2. State v. RoweSupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1968
  3. Sturtevant v. CommonwealthMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1893
  4. State v. Rardon State v. MontgomeryIndiana Supreme Court · 1943
  5. State v. WebberSupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1926

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3Cited by11 opinions

  1. State v. DavenportSupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1974
  2. State v. HealdSupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1978
  3. State v. ThibodeauSupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1976
  4. State v. AlleySupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1970
  5. State v. ThibodeauSupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1974

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