Legal Opinion
Woodruff v. Breazeale
District Court, N.D. Mississippi
Decided September 27, 1967No. GC6554PublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
CLAYTON, District Judge.
In this habeas corpus proceeding, the petitioner attacks the validity' of his conviction in the Circuit Court of Calhoun County, Mississippi, in March, 1962. He is a prisoner in the Mississippi State Penitentiary and began these proceedings pro se. However, he has for some time been represented by competent counsel of the Lawyers Constitutional *131Defense Committee of the American Civil Liberties Union. A number of issues were tendered and issue joined thereon which are not now necessary to consider, since the parties have agreed that the only issue for…
2Cases cited12 opinions
- Glasser v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1942
- Thiel v. Southern Pacific Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1946
- Torcaso v. WatkinsSupreme Court of the United States · 1961
- Ballard v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1946
- Fay v. New YorkSupreme Court of the United States · 1947
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3Cited by9 opinions
- People v. SirhanCalifornia Supreme Court · 1972
- United States v. ButeraCourt of Appeals for the First Circuit · 1970
- Henry Cook Salisbury v. T. Ralph Grimes, Sheriff of Fulton County, GeorgiaCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1969
- Blanton v. StateSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1970
- Woodruff v. BreazealeCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1968
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