Legal Opinion
Ex parte Collins
Supreme Court of Missouri
Decided October 15, 1887PublishedCited by 17 opinions
Habeas Corpus.
1Opinion of the CourtSherwood, J.
In the year 1872, - the petitioner, Collins, was convicted of murder in the first degree, and sentenced to death, in the St. Louis circuit court. The Governor, B. Gratz Brown, commuted his punishment to imprisonment in the penitentiary for and during the term of his natural life. Thereupon, that court, by an order to that effect entered of record, sentenced Collins to imprisonment in the penitentiary as aforesaid.
At that time, the law of 1865-6 was as follows :
“Sec. 1. That when any person imprisoned in the penitentiary of the state of Missouri, shall have, during the whole time of his or her…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Commonwealth v. LockwoodMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1872
3Cited by17 opinions
- Collins v. StateSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1977
- Hunter v. HunterSupreme Court of Missouri · 1951
- Chapman v. ScottDistrict Court, D. Connecticut · 1925
- Jamison v. FlannerSupreme Court of Kansas · 1924
- People ex rel. Patrick v. FrostAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1909
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