Legal Opinion
Beard v. Bennett
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided June 17, 1940No. 7580PublishedCited by 22 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
RUTLEDGE, Associate Justice.
The appeal is from an order denying a petition for a writ of habeas corpus for want of jurisdiction in the court to issue it in the circumstances made by the case. Appellant is confined in the United States Penitentiary at Atlanta, Georgia, where he is serving a sentence of two to six years’ imprisonment imposed May IS, 1935, upon his conviction in the court below of violating Section 865 of the District of Columbia Code. He alleges that the conviction was secured through evidence illegally obtained; that he was confined first in the Washington Asylum and Jail;…
2Cases cited19 opinions
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- Story v. RivesCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1938
- Sanders v. AllenCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1938
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3Cited by22 opinions
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- Michael Cosgrove v. William French Smith, Attorney General of the United StatesCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1983
- Pope v. HuffCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1944
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