Legal Opinion
Quillien v. Leeke
District Court, D. South Carolina
Decided September 5, 1969No. Civ. A. 69-475PublishedCited by 14 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION AND ORDER
DONALD RUSSELL, District Judge.
This is a petition in habeas corpus by a state prisoner who had consented to a jury verdict of guilty of an assault with intent to ravish with recommendation to mercy in the General Sessions Court of Richland County, South Carolina. Under the terms of Section 16-72, Code of South Carolina (1962), the penalty for such crime is fixed at “death unless the jury shall recommend him to the mercy of the court in which event he shall be confined at hard labor in the State Penitentiary for a term not exceeding forty years nor less than five years, at the…
2Cases cited101 opinions
- Boykin v. AlabamaSupreme Court of the United States · 1969
- Townsend v. SainSupreme Court of the United States · 1963
- McCarthy v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1969
- Brown v. AllenSupreme Court of the United States · 1953
- Townsend v. BurkeSupreme Court of the United States · 1948
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3Cited by14 opinions
- Ward v. PeopleSupreme Court of Colorado · 1970
- James G. Perry v. Sherman A. Crouse, Warden, Kansas State PenitentiaryCourt of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 1970
- State v. VaitogiHawaii Supreme Court · 1978
- St. Clair v. CoxDistrict Court, W.D. Virginia · 1970
- United States v. Norfleet Lee CarterCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1976
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