Legal Opinion
Bowen v. Johnston
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided January 30, 1939No. 359PublishedCited by 489 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Hughes
Petitioner was convicted, in 1933, in the District Court of the Northern District of Georgia, of murder committed in 1930 on the Government Reservation known as the Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Park within the exterior limits of the State of Georgia. He was sentenced to imprisonment for life and is confined in the prison at Alcatraz, California.
In 1937, he presented a petition for a writ of habeas corpus to the District Judge of the Northern District of California alleging that the indictment was void, and no legal judgment could be based thereon, as it failed to show jurisdiction…
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