Legal Opinion

Donald Allen Kiger v. United States

Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit

Decided May 8, 1963No. 13732PublishedCited by 18 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

KILEY, Circuit Judge.

Defendant Kiger’s petition for a writ of error coram nobis was denied without a hearing by the District Court, and he has appealed.

Kiger was arrested in 1957 by federal agents on suspicion of an Indiana bank

robbery. 1 He passed a lie test, an eye witness failed to identify him, and he was released. In 1959, Kiger was arrested in New York, and returned to Indiana to stand trial for the 1957 Indiana bank robbery. He was convicted on January 21, 1960, and sentenced to a term of eighteen years. He did not appeal. It is for relief from that Indiana judgment that he commenced…

2Cases cited7 opinions

  1. Napue v. IllinoisSupreme Court of the United States · 1959
  2. United States v. MorganSupreme Court of the United States · 1954
  3. Heflin v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1959
  4. Tinkoff v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1942
  5. James v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1949

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3Cited by18 opinions

  1. Andrew Pasha v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1973
  2. Edward B. Hager v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the First Circuit · 1993
  3. Ivan L. Deckard v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1967
  4. Robert T. Mathis v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1966
  5. Carl McFadden v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1971

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