Legal Opinion
Ernest Stevenson v. Otto C. Boles, Warden of the West Virginia State Penitentiary
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Decided April 28, 1964No. 9202_1PublishedCited by 21 opinions
1Per curiam
This is an appeal by the State of West Virginia from an order of the District Court directing that the prisoner Ernest Stevenson be released or retried within a reasonable time. The District Court found that the prisoner’s constitutional rights had been violated by the introduction at his original trial of a coerced oral confession. The District Court’s opinion is published at 221 F.Supp. 411.
On February 5, 1960, at 11:00 a.m. the body of Louise Davis was found lying in a pool of blood in the back room of the Atlantic Seafood Shop in the city of Huntington, West Virginia. She had been…
2Cases cited13 opinions
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3Cited by21 opinions
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