Legal Opinion
George B. Smith v. R. J. Gaffney, Warden, Kansas State Penitentiary, Lansing, Kansas
Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
Decided August 7, 1972No. 71-1609PublishedCited by 11 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BARRETT, Circuit Judge.
George B. Smith, a state prisoner, appeals from an order dismissing his petition for a writ of habeas corpus.
In June, 1962, Smith was convicted in the Sedgwick County District Court of Kansas on counts of second degree burglary and grand larceny. The Court, upon a showing of two prior Oklahoma felony convictions and one prior Kansas felony conviction, imposed concurrent life sentences pursuant to the Kansas Habitual Criminal Act, K.S.A. 21-107a.
Smith collaterally attacked the concurrent life sentences in both state and federal courts on the ground that two of the three…
2Cases cited16 opinions
- Blockburger v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1931
- North Carolina v. PearceSupreme Court of the United States · 1969
- Whiteley v. Warden, Wyoming State PenitentiarySupreme Court of the United States · 1971
- Arthur J. Watson v. Wayne K. Patterson, Warden, Colorado State PenitentiaryCourt of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 1966
- David Martin Goldsmith v. Lawrence Cheney, Sheriff of Teton County, WyomingCourt of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 1971
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3Cited by11 opinions
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- State v. ColemanMontana Supreme Court · 1979
- United States v. William Herman JacksonCourt of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 1973
- Edwin Edgar Jones v. Norman Hess and the State of OklahomaCourt of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 1982
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