Legal Opinion
Wilmer W. Evans v. State of Arizona
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided May 29, 1969No. 22938PublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BYRNE, District Judge:
Appellant was convicted by a jury of having committed murder in the first degree by drowning his wife in an automobile which he contrived to have plunge into San Carlos Lake at Coolidge Dam, Arizona. On June 26, 1958, he was sentenced to life imprisonment.
His conviction was affirmed by the Arizona Supreme Court. In an effort to have his conviction set aside he has filed numerous applications for writs in the State courts of Arizona and the Federal courts including the Supreme Court. All of these efforts were unsuccessful until he finally met with a modicum of success in…
2Cases cited4 opinions
- Sheppard v. MaxwellSupreme Court of the United States · 1966
- Holt v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1910
- Spies v. IllinoisSupreme Court of the United States · 1887
- Wilmer W. Evans v. Frank A. Eyman, Warden Arizona State Prison, and State of ArizonaCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1966
3Cited by10 opinions
- Edward Byron Hale v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1971
- Thomas Carlton Wansley v. A. E. Slayton, Superintendent of the Virginia State PenitentiaryCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1973
- Kurtz v. PeopleSupreme Court of Colorado · 1972
- State v. SchmidArizona Supreme Court · 1973
- Fugate v. GaffneyDistrict Court, D. Nebraska · 1970
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