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Ellerbrake v. King

Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit

Decided December 12, 1940No. 11770PublishedCited by 10 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

DEWEY, District Judge.

This is an appeal from a dismissal of an application for a writ of habeas corpus.

The record shows that the applicant plead guilty in the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of Illinois to three indictments charging him with offenses connected with interstate freight thefts and he was sentenced to five-year consecutive terms on each indictment. While in the penitentiary at Atlanta, Georgia, he was found to be insane and removed to the United States Hospital for Defective Delinquents in Missouri.

The application for the writ was presented to the…

2Cases cited11 opinions

  1. Johnson v. ZerbstSupreme Court of the United States · 1938
  2. Windsor v. McVeighSupreme Court of the United States · 1876
  3. Miller v. AderholdSupreme Court of the United States · 1933
  4. McKee v. JohnstonCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1939
  5. Brown v. JohnstonCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1937

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3Cited by10 opinions

  1. Harry Morris Sherman v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1957
  2. Owen Walter Swepston v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1961
  3. Robert Edward Lipscomb v. United States of America, (Two Cases)Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1955
  4. Reilly v. PescorCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1946
  5. Sol Kaye v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1956

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