Legal Opinion
Diggs v. Welch
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided February 26, 1945No. 8880PublishedCited by 189 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ARNOLD, Associate Justice.
This is an appeal from an order of the District Court dismissing without a hearing a petition for a writ of habeas corpus. Appellant had been convicted and sentenced on a charge of grand larceny after a plea of guilty. His petition for habeas corpus-states that he was coerced and intimidated to enter a plea of guilty by the attorney appointed by the court to defend him. The more particular allegations of the petition, however, do not support the allegations of coercion and intimidation. In effect they amount only to a charge that the attorney appointed to represent…
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3Cited by189 opinions
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