Legal Opinion
Gerald Henry Irving, Jr. v. C. E. Breazeale, Superintendent of Mississippi State Penitentiary
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided August 27, 1968No. 24606_1PublishedCited by 46 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
GEWIN, Circuit Judge:
After a trial by jury, Appellant was convicted of murder in the Circuit Court of Harrison County, Mississippi, and sentenced to die in the gas chamber. Having exhausted all state remedies, 1 he filed a petition for a writ of habeas corpus in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi, asserting that his conviction was obtained in violation of his fifth, sixth, and fourteenth amendment rights. The district court denied the relief sought by Appellant’s petition 2 and he perfected an appeal to this court. We affirm the district Court’s denial…
2Cases cited28 opinions
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- Chapman v. CaliforniaSupreme Court of the United States · 1967
- Escobedo v. IllinoisSupreme Court of the United States · 1964
- Witherspoon v. IllinoisSupreme Court of the United States · 1968
- Townsend v. SainSupreme Court of the United States · 1963
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3Cited by46 opinions
- State v. AtkinsonSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1969
- William Napoleon Boyer v. City of OrlandoCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1968
- Williams v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 1983
- Richard E. Byrd v. S. Lamont Smith, Warden, Georgia State Prison, Reidsville, GeorgiaCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1969
- Joe Cephas Singleton v. W. J. Estelle, Director, Texas Department of CorrectionsCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1974
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