Legal Opinion

Ex parte Deatherage

Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

Decided August 27, 1938PublishedCited by 5 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

WILBUR, Senior Circuit Judge.

This is an application for leave to appeal in forma pauperis from an order of the District Court of the United States for the Northern District of California, South-era Division, denying applicant’s petition for writ of habeas corpus.

Applicants state that they are illegally imprisoned in the state prison for the State of California at Folsom in violation of the Constitution of the United States; they state they were convicted by perjured testimony; that the district attorney knew the prosecutrix was committing perjury and deliberately suppressed the hospital chart…

2Cases cited2 opinions

  1. Mooney v. HolohanSupreme Court of the United States · 1935
  2. Ex parte MelendezCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1938

3Cited by5 opinions

  1. Franzeen v. JohnstonCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1940
  2. Matter of Clifford Coleman Woods for a Certificate of Probable CauseCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1957
  3. Ex parte Von MoltkeDistrict Court, E.D. Michigan · 1946
  4. Schenk v. PlummerCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1940
  5. Jackson v. SanfordDistrict Court, N.D. Georgia · 1947

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