Legal Opinion
Wright v. Johnston
District Court, N.D. California
Decided April 23, 1948No. 28026PublishedCited by 14 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
DENMAN, Circuit Judge.
Wright has presented to me as circuit judge a petition for a writ of habeas corpus, alleging that his is in the custody of the above Warden, who is holding him under a commitment issued by the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Illinois on a judgment sentencing him for an aggregate of ten' years of successive sentences and a fine of $10,000, for stealing $2.43 from a postoffice in Strasburg, Illinois, breaking and entering the postoffice and conspiracy with three other accused, tried with him, to commit the above offenses.
The petition…
2Cases cited13 opinions
- Johnson v. ZerbstSupreme Court of the United States · 1938
- Glasser v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1942
- Powell v. AlabamaSupreme Court of the United States · 1932
- Snyder v. MassachusettsSupreme Court of the United States · 1934
- Tumey v. OhioSupreme Court of the United States · 1927
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3Cited by14 opinions
- Gilbert M. Craig v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1954
- People v. KerfootCalifornia Court of Appeal · 1960
- United States v. BestUnited States Court of Military Appeals · 1955
- Hawk v. StateNebraska Supreme Court · 1949
- Hayman v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1951
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