Legal Opinion
State of Utah v. Melvin Leroy Sullivan and Verne Alfred Braasch
Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
Decided February 27, 1956No. 19-1368PublishedCited by 29 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BRATTON, Circuit Judge.
Verne Alfred Braasch and Melvin Le-Roy Sullivan were tried in the state court of Utah upon a charge of murder. They were found guilty and sentenced to death. The judgment was affirmed, State of Utah v. Braasch, 119 Utah 450, 229 P.2d 289; and certiorari was denied 342 U.S. 910, 72 S.Ct. 304, 96 L.Ed. 681. Thereafter, they filed in the Supreme Court of Utah a pleading in which they sought a writ of habeas corpus. Without opinion, an order was entered disallowing the writ. On the next ensuing day, Sullivan and Braasch instituted in the United States Court for Utah this…
2Cases cited13 opinions
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- Gilmore v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 1942
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