Legal Opinion
Jones v. Commonwealth of Kentucky
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided June 8, 1938No. 7978PublishedCited by 48 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SIMONS, Circuit Judge.
The appellant was convicted of murder and sentenced to death by a Kentucky court. Having exhausted local remedies by way of petition for new trial, appeal, petitions for writ of habeas corpus and for writ of coram nobis, he challenged the manner of conviction as impairment of his right to due process under the Constitution of the United States (Amendment 14) by petition for writ of habeas corpus in the United States District Court.
The Attorney General of Kentucky, after “giving the matter more than ordinary consideration,” is “strongly inclined to the view that Tom Jones…
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