Legal Opinion
Robert Lee Case v. State of North Carolina
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Decided March 25, 1963No. 8768_1PublishedCited by 19 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
J. SPENCER BELL, Circuit Judge.
The petitioner, Robert Lee Case, was convicted of the capital crime of rape, without recommendation of life imprisonment by the jury, and a mandatory sentence of death was pronounced by the state court.1 The judgment was affirmed by the Supreme Court of North Carolina, State v. Case, 253 N.C. 130, 116 S.E.2d 429 (1960), and petition for certiorari denied by the Supreme Court of the United States, Case v. North Carolina, 365 U.S. 830, 81 S.Ct. 717, 5 L.Ed. 2d 707 (1961). Post-conviction proceedings were instituted in the state courts, and after hearing, the court…
2Cases cited8 opinions
- Glasser v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1942
- Powell v. AlabamaSupreme Court of the United States · 1932
- Brown v. AllenSupreme Court of the United States · 1953
- State v. CaseSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1960
- State v. McMillanSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1951
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3Cited by19 opinions
- People v. VrinerIllinois Supreme Court · 1978
- William Foxworth v. Louie L. Wainwright, Director, Division of CorrectionsCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1975
- Harold L. Peek, Jr., and Susanna E. Peek v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1963
- State v. KruchtenArizona Supreme Court · 1966
- Vernon E. Goodson v. C. C. Peyton, Superintendent of the Virginia State PenitentiaryCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1965
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