Legal Opinion
Dean v. State of Ohio
District Court, N.D. West Virginia
Decided October 16, 1952No. 611PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WATKINS, District Judge.
At the January, 1948 Term of the Intermediate Court of Kanawha County, West Virginia, petitioner was sentenced to life imprisonment as an habitual criminal. After entering upon his sentence he filed a petition for a writ of habeas corpus in the Circuit Court of Marshall County, West Virginia, where the state penitentiary is located, claiming that he had been pardoned of one of the former convictions upon which his sentence as an habitual criminal had been based and that this made his sentence invalid. The Circuit Court held for petitioner but the Supreme Court of…
2Cases cited15 opinions
- Frisbie v. CollinsSupreme Court of the United States · 1952
- Ponzi v. FessendenSupreme Court of the United States · 1922
- In re AndrewsDistrict Court, D. Vermont · 1916
- Mitchell v. Boen, United States MarshalCourt of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 1952
- Ross, Sheriff v. MiddlebrooksCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1951
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3Cited by4 opinions
- Lawson v. CoinerDistrict Court, N.D. West Virginia · 1968
- Commonwealth ex rel. Patton v. TeesSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1955
- John Bullis v. Carl Hocker, Warden of the Nevada State PenitentiaryCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1969
- Turner v. BolesDistrict Court, N.D. West Virginia · 1967