Legal Opinion

Deese v. Cochran

Supreme Court of Florida

Decided March 28, 1962No. 31061PublishedCited by 8 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

139 So.2d 429 (1962)

John A. DEESE, Petitioner,

v.

H.G. COCHRAN, Jr., Director, Division of Corrections, Respondent.

No. 31061.

Supreme Court of Florida.

March 28, 1962.

John A. Deese, in pro. per.

Richard W. Ervin, Atty. Gen., and B. Clarke Nichols, Asst. Atty. Gen., for respondent.

THOMAS, Justice.

From the allegations of the petition for writ of habeas corpus and the return filed in response to the writ this court issued, we get the salient facts.

The petitioner was convicted in the Circuit Court of Brevard County, Florida, and sentenced 10 March 1951 to four years in the state penitentiary. On 28…

2Cited by8 opinions

  1. Coleman v. WainwrightSupreme Court of Florida · 1975
  2. Simmons v. StateDistrict Court of Appeal of Florida · 1969
  3. Gibbs v. WainwrightDistrict Court of Appeal of Florida · 1974
  4. Porter v. StateDistrict Court of Appeal of Florida · 1968
  5. Blackburn v. StateSupreme Court of Florida · 1964

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