Legal Opinion

Chambers v. State

Supreme Court of Florida

Decided January 22, 1934PublishedCited by 21 opinions

1Opinion of the CourtBuford, J.

After a judgment of the Circuit Court in and for Broward County adjudging each of the several petitioners to be guilty of murder in the first degree and sentencing them each to death by electrocution, as is required under the laws of this State, had been entered and writ of error had been taken to such judgment and it had been affirmed by this Court, the petitioners now come with a petition for leave to apply to the Circuit Court in and for Broward County for a writ of error coram nobis.

The record shows that one of the petitioners, Chambers, pleaded not guilty, was tried and convicted, while…

2Cases cited3 opinions

  1. Nickels v. StateSupreme Court of Florida · 1923
  2. Jennings v. Pope, Etc.Supreme Court of Florida · 1931
  3. Washington v. StateSupreme Court of Florida · 1928

3Cited by21 opinions

  1. Chambers v. FloridaSupreme Court of the United States · 1940
  2. Chambers v. StateSupreme Court of Florida · 1934
  3. Hendricks v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma · 1956
  4. Chambers v. StateSupreme Court of Florida · 1939
  5. Harvey Ray Cochran v. Willard Norvell, Warden, Etc.Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1971

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