Legal Opinion
Farnsworth v. Zerbst
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided June 16, 1938No. 8711PublishedCited by 13 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SIBLEY, Circuit Judge.
The petitioner-appellant sought by habe-as corpus to be discharged from imprisonment in the United States Penitentiary at Atlanta where he is serving an indeterminate sentence of four to twelve years imposed after a trial in the District of Columbia upon a charge of conspiracy to violate Section 32 of Title 50 of the United States Code, 50 U.S.C.A. § 32. The original petition asserted that the sentence was void because the indictment charged no offense, citing Aderhold, Warden, v. Schieltz, 5 Cir., 73 F.2d 381; because the sentence was in excess of the maximum of two…
2Cases cited9 opinions
- Kercheval v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1927
- Knewel v. EganSupreme Court of the United States · 1925
- Hudson v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1926
- United States v. NorrisSupreme Court of the United States · 1930
- Sims v. RivesCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1936
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3Cited by13 opinions
- United States v. Jean Robert MoriCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1971
- Farnsworth v. SanfordCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1940
- Stamphill v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 1943
- Fisher v. SchilderCourt of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 1942
- John L. Beck v. P. E. Wilkes, Acting Warden, Federal PenitentiaryCourt of Appeals for the Federal Circuit · 1979
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