Legal Opinion
Wilfong v. Johnston
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided June 27, 1946No. 11253PublishedCited by 29 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ORR, Circuit Judge.
This is an appeal by George Marion Wilfong, hereafter referred to as petitioner, from a judgment' dismissing a writ of, habeas corpus.
Petitioner was convicted in 1938 in the United States District Court for the Western District of Michigan. We shall hereafter refer to the District Court of Michigan as the trial court. The crime for which petitioner was convicted was bank robbery. He was sentenced to imprisonment for twenty-five years. Now confined under that sentence in the United States penitentiary on Alcatraz Island, California, petitioner filed a petition for writ of…
2Cases cited20 opinions
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3Cited by29 opinions
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- Council v. ClemmerCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1949
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