Legal Opinion
Ex parte Sharpe
District Court, W.D. Kentucky
Decided January 16, 1941No. 235PublishedCited by 8 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MILLER, District Judge.
The petitioner Howard Sharpe complains in this application for a writ of habeas corpus that he is unlawfully confined in the Eddyville Penitentiary of the State of Kentucky, to which institution he was committed following a judgment of the Fayette Circuit Court at Lexington, Kentucky.
The petitioner states that on December 12, 1937, one Richard Mutran was murdered in Lexington, Kentucky, that on April 12, 1938, the petitioner was indicted by the Grand Jury of Fayette County, Kentucky, on a charge of murder, that thereafter and prior to April 21, 1938, he was arraigned in…
2Cases cited23 opinions
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3Cited by8 opinions
- Anderson v. BuchananCourt of Appeals of Kentucky (pre-1976) · 1943
- Sharpe v. CommonwealthCourt of Appeals of Kentucky (pre-1976) · 1942
- Hoskins v. BuchananCourt of Appeals of Kentucky (pre-1976) · 1949
- Dawsett v. BensonCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1946
- Sharpe v. KentuckyCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1943
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