Legal Opinion
Joe Shawan v. H. A. Cox, Warden
Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
Decided September 16, 1965No. 8107PublishedCited by 28 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HILL, Circuit Judge.
Appellant Shawan is presently incarcerated in the New Mexico State Penitentiary and appellee is the warden of that institution. The appeal is from an order denying a petition for a writ of habeas corpus.
Appellant, a Cherokee Indian, at the time of his arrest was sixty years of age, an indigent person without sufficient funds to employ an attorney and an itinerant worker with less than an eighth grade education. He was arrested in Las Cruces, New Mexico, on September 23, 1961, and taken to jail. Shortly thereafter he was permitted to use a telephone and he called a lawyer,…
2Cases cited14 opinions
- Gideon v. WainwrightSupreme Court of the United States · 1963
- Gideon v. WainwrightSupreme Court of the United States · 1963
- Powell v. AlabamaSupreme Court of the United States · 1932
- Carnley v. CochranSupreme Court of the United States · 1962
- Rice v. OlsonSupreme Court of the United States · 1945
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3Cited by28 opinions
- United States v. John Morgan WilliamsonCourt of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 1986
- United States v. John J. AfflerbachCourt of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 1977
- State v. GilbertNew Mexico Supreme Court · 1967
- Bement v. StateIdaho Supreme Court · 1966
- Morris v. StateSupreme Court of Missouri · 1970
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