Legal Opinion
Ernest Whippler v. A. L. Dutton, Warden, Georgia State Prison
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided February 7, 1968No. 24428_1PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
GEWIN, Circuit Judge.
Appellant, convicted of murder and now under a death sentence, petitioned the United States District Court for the Southern District of Georgia for a writ of habeas corpus. After a full evidentiary hearing the district court denied the petition. We reverse.
The facts may be briefly stated. On July 16, 1960, J. C. Chambers, a white grocer, was slain and robbed at his store near Macon, Georgia. Petitioner, a Negro man of little education and limited mental ability, 1 was taken into custody at the sheriff's office on July 19 when he went there in search of his wife. He was…
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- Walls v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma · 1971
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