Legal Opinion
William Leon Horsley v. C. M. Simpson, Warden, Kilby Prison, Montgomery, Alabama
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided September 16, 1968No. 25557PublishedCited by 38 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
GEWIN, Circuit Judge:
Appellant was convicted by a jury on September 27, 1962, in the Circuit Court of Saint Clair County, Alabama, of having carnal knowledge of his seven-year-old daughter. He was sentenced to the state penitentiary for a term of twenty years. After the adverse jury verdict, Appellant’s counsel neither moved the court for a new trial nor appealed the case to the state appellate court. Appellant twice petitioned the sentencing court for a writ of error coram nobis but was unsuccessful. Having exhausted his state remedies, Appellant filed in forma pau-peris a petition for a…
2Cases cited11 opinions
- Anders v. CaliforniaSupreme Court of the United States · 1967
- Griffin v. IllinoisSupreme Court of the United States · 1956
- Douglas v. CaliforniaSupreme Court of the United States · 1963
- Thomas Lorenzo Williams v. Dr. George Beto, Director, Texas Department of CorrectionsCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1966
- Swenson v. BoslerSupreme Court of the United States · 1967
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3Cited by38 opinions
- David Barnes v. Everett W. Jones, Superintendent Great Meadow Correctional Facility and the State of New YorkCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1981
- Longmire v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1982
- Ex Parte PerezCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1972
- Donald Dee Collier v. W. J. Estelle, Jr., Director, Texas Department of CorrectionsCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1974
- Wilbur M. Johnson v. Louie L. Wainwright, Director, Division of Corrections, State of FloridaCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1972
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