Legal Opinion
Application of House
Alaska Supreme Court
Decided May 9, 1960No. 45PublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
NESBETT, Chief Justice.
The question presented by a show cause order why a writ of habeas corpus should not issue, and an intervening motion by the United States to dismiss the Order, is whether the status of petitioner is such that an Alaska state court or judicial officer thereof has no jurisdiction to issue a writ of habeas corpus.
Petitioner was tried, convicted of murder in the first degree and sentenced to life imprisonment without hard labor by the District Court for the Territory of Alaska at Fairbanks on June 10, 1958. He was released by the same court on $25,000 bail pending appeal,…
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