Legal Opinion
Melvin Davis Rees, Jr. v. C. C. Peyton, Superintendent of the Virginia State Penitentiary
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Decided February 1, 1965No. 9410_1PublishedCited by 45 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ALBERT V. BRYAN, Circuit Judge:
By habeas corpus in the District Court Melvin Davis Rees, Jr. seasonably but unsuccessfully attacked, as unconstitutional, his trial, conviction and sentence of death in a Virginia court for the murder of Carroll Vernon Jackson, Jr. On his appeal we find no entrenchment upon his rights in the criminal trial. Nor do we see error in the conduct of the habeas corpus hearing. Discharge of the writ will be affirmed.
The incursions upon his fundamental privileges by the State, as charged by Rees, are (1) the admission in evidence of a pistol seized in an illegal…
2Cases cited17 opinions
- Mapp v. OhioSupreme Court of the United States · 1961
- Johnson v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1948
- Irvin v. DowdSupreme Court of the United States · 1961
- Ker v. CaliforniaSupreme Court of the United States · 1963
- United States v. RabinowitzSupreme Court of the United States · 1950
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3Cited by45 opinions
- Rees v. PeytonSupreme Court of the United States · 1966
- William L. Calley, Jr., Cross-Appellant v. Howard H. Callaway, Etc., Etc., Cross-AppelleesCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1975
- William L. Maxwell v. Dan D. Stephens, Superintendent of Arkansas State PenitentiaryCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1965
- United States v. Richard Cleve BrownCourt of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 1976
- Allan L. Robbins, Warden, Maine State Prison v. Kenneth MacKenzieCourt of Appeals for the First Circuit · 1966
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