Legal Opinion
United States Ex Rel. Darcy v. Handy
District Court, M.D. Pennsylvania
Decided May 17, 1951No. 257PublishedCited by 18 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MURPHY, District Judge.
Petitioner, convicted of murder and sentenced to death in the Court of Oyer and Terminer of Bucks County, Pennsylvania, and presently confined in this district, sought on April 3, 1951, a writ of habeas corpus and a stay of execution alleging that the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania denied him a fair and impartial trial and was about to deprive him of his life without due process of law in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States. The Commonwealth moved to dismiss the petition as insufficient at law.
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2Cases cited142 opinions
- Johnson v. ZerbstSupreme Court of the United States · 1938
- Glasser v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1942
- Hickman v. TaylorSupreme Court of the United States · 1947
- Powell v. AlabamaSupreme Court of the United States · 1932
- Adams v. United States Ex Rel. McCannSupreme Court of the United States · 1943
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3Cited by18 opinions
- United States Ex Rel. Darcy v. HandySupreme Court of the United States · 1956
- United States Ex Rel. Darcy v. Handy, WardenCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1953
- Huffman v. AlexanderOregon Supreme Court · 1952
- Commonwealth v. ChilcoteSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1990
- State Ex Rel. Richey v. HillWest Virginia Supreme Court · 2004
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