Legal Opinion
William McBee v. Lynn Bomar, Wareden, Tennessee State Penitentiary
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided December 4, 1961No. 14409PublishedCited by 54 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MAGRUDER, Circuit Jiidge.
The appeal in this case is from an order of the United States District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee, Nashville Division, entered on July 1, 1960, dismissing a petition for a writ of habeas corpus and remanding petitioner to the custody of respondent, the Warden of the Tennessee State Penitentiary. Since we think the district court did not give the proper weight to a constitutional right of the petitioner, we are constrained to reverse its order.
Petitioner, a Negro man with a sixth-grade education, whose mental level perhaps is indicated by his belief in…
2Cases cited9 opinions
- Powell v. AlabamaSupreme Court of the United States · 1932
- Brown v. AllenSupreme Court of the United States · 1953
- Von Moltke v. GilliesSupreme Court of the United States · 1948
- Edward Morgan MacKenna v. O. B. Ellis, Director, Texas Department of CorrectionsCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1960
- Hawk v. OlsonSupreme Court of the United States · 1945
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3Cited by54 opinions
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- McBee v. StateTennessee Supreme Court · 1963
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- Ethyl Corp. v. Environmental Protection AgencyCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1976
- Kishin Ramchand Balani v. Immigration and Naturalization ServiceCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1982
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