Legal Opinion
Ex parte Cowen
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided June 24, 1938PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WILBUR, Senior Circuit Judge.
Petitioner asked for an allowance of appeal from an order denying his application for writ of habeas corpus. The petition does not set out nor disclose the petition for habeas corpus filed in the lower court. It contains an assignment of errors, eight in number. Apparently the petitioner claims that he is imprisoned in violation of Art. 1, Sec. 10, of the Federal Constitution, U.S.C.A.Const. art. 1, § 10, prohibiting ex post facto laws. He claims that by the amendment of Sec. 1168 of the California Penal Code, St. 1931, p. 1053, the punishment has been changed in…
2Cases cited6 opinions
- Mooney v. HolohanSupreme Court of the United States · 1935
- Massachusetts v. MellonSupreme Court of the United States · 1923
- Howat v. KansasSupreme Court of the United States · 1922
- White v. JohnsonSupreme Court of the United States · 1931
- Phillips v. McCauleyCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1937
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3Cited by4 opinions
- Botwinski v. DowdCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1941
- Johnson v. WilsonCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1942
- Schenk v. PlummerCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1940
- Wilks v. YoungDistrict Court, E.D. Wisconsin · 1984