Legal Opinion
Willie Young, Calvin Thomas and Harold Simon v. L. L. Wainwright, Director, Division of Corrections
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided January 9, 1964No. 20952_1PublishedCited by 16 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
RIVES, Circuit Judge.
The appellants were convicted in the-Circuit Court of Duval County, Florida, of murder in the first degree, and were sentenced to death by electrocution. The judgment and sentence as to each of them was affirmed by the Supreme Court of' Florida. Young, et al. v. State of Florida, Fla.1962, 140 So.2d 97.
At the trial a written confession by each was introduced in evidence over the objection of each defendant. The .grounds of objection preserved for review their first contention made in the ■Supreme Court of Florida and ruled on by that Court as follows:
“It is first…
2Cases cited27 opinions
- Fay v. NoiaSupreme Court of the United States · 1963
- Brown v. AllenSupreme Court of the United States · 1953
- McNabb v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1943
- Culombe v. ConnecticutSupreme Court of the United States · 1961
- Townsend v. BurkeSupreme Court of the United States · 1948
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3Cited by16 opinions
- Wilmer Lane Easter v. W. J. Estelle, Jr., Director, Texas Department of CorrectionsCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1980
- Arthur Lee Norris v. Louie L. Wainwright, Director, Division of Corrections, State of FloridaCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1979
- Jack Messelt v. State of AlabamaCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1979
- Davis v. StateDistrict Court of Appeal of Florida · 1973
- McCoy v. StateDistrict Court of Appeal of Florida · 1965
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