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Huey R. Lee, Jr. v. Martin J. Wiman, Warden, Etc., and A. Frank Lee, as Commissioner of the Board of Corrections of the State of Alabama

Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit

Decided June 23, 1960No. 18212_1PublishedCited by 32 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

RIVES, Chief Judge.

This appeal is from an order refusing to entertain, or denying without a hearing, an application for habeas corpus seeking the discharge of a prisoner from state custody. The applicant is confined under sentence of life imprisonment imposed when he was convicted of murder in the first degree.

The record now brought before us through the diligence of court-appointed counsel extends back over a period of eighteen years. On July 6,1942, Huey R. Lee, Jr. was arrested, confined in the jail of Barbour County, Alabama, and charged with murder in the first degree for the slaying of…

2Cases cited29 opinions

  1. Glasser v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1942
  2. Brown v. AllenSupreme Court of the United States · 1953
  3. Darr v. BurfordSupreme Court of the United States · 1950
  4. Bishop v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1956
  5. Archibald Lyles v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1958

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3Cited by32 opinions

  1. Hernandez v. ThalerCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 2011
  2. George Lee Mims, Sr. v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1967
  3. Victor Harry Feguer v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1962
  4. Robert v. Bruce v. W. J. Estelle, Director, Texas Department of CorrectionsCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1973
  5. Nathan Thomas v. W. K. Cunningham, Jr., Superintendent of the Virginia State PenitentiaryCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1963

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