Legal Opinion
Morton v. Henderson
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided October 21, 1941No. 9804PublishedCited by 13 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HOLMES, Circuit Judge.
This appeal is from a judgment quashing a writ of habeas corpus and remanding petitioner to the custody of the warden. The judgment is challenged here on the ground that it was rendered after the state court had lost jurisdiction of the case by proceeding in violation of the defendant’s rights guaranteed by the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments to the Constitution of the United States.
Appellant was indicted and tried for the crime of murder in a state court of Georgia. He was then and is now represented by two competent attorneys employed by him. When the case had been…
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