Legal Opinion
Ex Parte Foster
Court of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma
Decided September 18, 1936No. A-9197PublishedCited by 25 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtDoyle, J.
This is an application for writ of ha-beas corpus by John Foster, who alleges that he is illegally restrained of his liberty and unlawfully imprisoned by John Watt, chief of police of the city of Oklahoma City, Okla., as follows:
“The petitioner alleges the facts to be, that on the 10th day of December, 1928, he was duly sentenced to serve from one year to life in the penitentiary of the state of Illinois, by the Judge of the district court of Franklin county, state of Illinois, and that on the 30th day of December, 1928, was committed to said prison at Menard, 111. That on the 18th day of…
2Cases cited12 opinions
- Appleyard v. MassachusettsSupreme Court of the United States · 1906
- Compton v. AlabamaSupreme Court of the United States · 1909
- Commonwealth v. Superintendent of Philadelphia County PrisonSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1908
- Ex Parte RidleyCourt of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma · 1910
- State Ex Rel. Treseder v. RemannWashington Supreme Court · 1931
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3Cited by25 opinions
- Anderson v. AlexanderOregon Supreme Court · 1951
- Self v. PeopleSupreme Court of Colorado · 1956
- Brewer v. GoffCourt of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 1943
- People Ex Rel. Hesley v. RagenIllinois Supreme Court · 1947
- In Re KimlerCalifornia Supreme Court · 1951
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