Legal Opinion
United States Ex Rel. MacBlain v. Burke
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Decided December 16, 1952No. 10803_1PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
STALEY, Circuit Judge.
Acting as his own lawyer, petitioner appeals from a denial of his petition for a writ of habeas corpus, seeking release from Pennsylvania confinement.
Petitioner was sentenced in 1926 by the Court of Oyer and Terminer of Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, to two consecutive terms of imprisonment, one for seven and one-half to fifteen years and the other for five to ten years. In 1936, the minimum portion of his first sentence was commuted to one day, 1 and he was released on parole about one month later. In 1937, he was returned as a technical parole violator and was held…
2Cases cited12 opinions
- Frisbie v. CollinsSupreme Court of the United States · 1952
- United States Ex Rel. Smith v. BaldiCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1951
- Commonwealth v. AsheSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1935
- In Re Pierce v. SmithWashington Supreme Court · 1948
- In Re TennerCalifornia Supreme Court · 1942
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3Cited by5 opinions
- Alvin P. Toney v. Gayle M. FranzenCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1982
- United States of America Ex Rel. E. A. Simmons for and on Behalf of Delores Gray, Also Known as Delores Ray v. Joseph D. Lohman and Irwin J. BlazekCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1955
- In Re Petition of DixsonMontana Supreme Court · 1967
- Commonwealth v. KaminskySuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1965
- United States ex rel. Huggins v. CommonwealthDistrict Court, W.D. Pennsylvania · 1953