Legal Opinion
Mothershead v. King
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided June 29, 1940No. 11681PublishedCited by 17 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SANBORN, Circuit Judge.
This appeal is from an order dismissing the petition of James Mothershead for a writ of habeas corpus.
On April 24, 1939, there was filed in the office of the Clerk of the court below, at Springfield, Missouri, the petition of appellant, an inmate of the Medical Center for Federal Prisoners at Springfield, for a writ of habeas corpus directed to the Warden of that institution. The allegations of the petition may be summarized as follows; That on November 3, 1928, the petitioner (appellant), who was unable to employ counsel, was arraigned before a judge of the Supreme…
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