Legal Opinion
Sink v. Cox
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided May 29, 1944No. 12763PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
RIDDICK, Circuit Judge.
This is an appeal from a judgment denying a petition for a writ of habeas corpus.
On April 27, 1936, the appellant, on his pleas of guilty to two indictments returned against him in the United States District Court for the Western District of Kentucky, received five sentences to imprisonment in the United States Penitentiary at Atlanta, Georgia, the sentences to run consecutively for a period of 13% years. After his commitment, appellant, in proper proceedings, was found to be a person of unsound mind and was removed to the Medical Center for Federal Prisoners at…
2Cases cited10 opinions
- McNally v. HillSupreme Court of the United States · 1934
- Holiday v. JohnstonSupreme Court of the United States · 1941
- Hewitt v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1940
- Roark v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1927
- Sloan v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1923
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3Cited by6 opinions
- Ex Parte SteeleDistrict Court, M.D. Pennsylvania · 1948
- Wilhoit v. HiattDistrict Court, M.D. Pennsylvania · 1945
- Herman Edward Nelms v. United States of America, (Two Cases)Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1961
- Ex parte WhistlerDistrict Court, E.D. Wisconsin · 1945
- Adams v. HiattDistrict Court, M.D. Pennsylvania · 1948
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