Legal Opinion
Davis v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided January 25, 1954No. 14799PublishedCited by 15 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
COLLET, Circuit Judge.
Appellant entered a plea of guilty, June 3, 1935, in the United States District Court for the District of Minnesota, to an indictment charging that he conspired with others to, and did, kidnap Edward George Bremer at St. Paul, Minnesota, and transport him into the State of Illinois. Sentence was deferred until June 7, 1935, at which time he was sentenced to life imprisonment by Judge Matthew M. Joyce. Appellant did not have counsel. He was thereafter confined at Alcatraz. In 1940 he sought a writ of habeas corpus in the Northern District of California upon the ground…
2Cases cited8 opinions
- United States v. HaymanSupreme Court of the United States · 1952
- Walker v. JohnstonSupreme Court of the United States · 1941
- Morgan v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1936
- Mothershead v. KingCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1940
- Cuckovich v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1948
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3Cited by15 opinions
- United States v. Lawrence KearneyCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1982
- United States v. Alexander Henry SmithCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1964
- Volney Davis v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1955
- Johnny Ray Smith v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1955
- Willard Barrett v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1959
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