Legal Opinion
Henry C. Haggard v. State of Alabama
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided April 14, 1977No. 75-2581PublishedCited by 40 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
RONEY, Circuit Judge:
Henry Haggard seeks a reversal of the district court’s denial of his petition for writ of habeas corpus, 28 U.S.C.A. § 2254.
In 1968 an Alabama state court jury convicted Haggard on an armed robbery charge. The robbery victims were an elderly black couple, one of whom had known Haggard since the day he was born, the other for twenty-five years. At trial both victims identified Haggard as one of the robbers.
Haggard was sentenced to thirty years imprisonment. He took no appeal, but five months later filed a pro se coram nobis petition which the court denied after a hearing.…
2Cases cited13 opinions
- Estelle v. WilliamsSupreme Court of the United States · 1976
- Francis v. HendersonSupreme Court of the United States · 1976
- Edward Morgan MacKenna v. O. B. Ellis, Director, Texas Department of CorrectionsCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1960
- United States v. Paul L. Wayman, Paul Howard Noe Alias H. P. Knowles, Robert L. Hutcheson, Andvictor M. Moore, Jr.Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1975
- United States v. Carl Lovano and Peter GenovaCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1970
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3Cited by40 opinions
- Raymond L. Buckelew and James Laney Jenkins v. United States of America, Judson Lee Drane v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1978
- Commonwealth v. AdamsMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1978
- United States v. Victor Ernesto Bosch, United States of America v. Victor Correa GomezCourt of Appeals for the First Circuit · 1978
- United States v. Pedro L. AlvarezCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1978
- Duren v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Alabama · 1990
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