Legal Opinion
Marvin Spires v. Alfred F. Dowd, Warden of the Indiana State Prison
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided November 12, 1959No. 12677PublishedCited by 17 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SCHNACKENBERG, Circuit Judge.
Marvin Spires appeals from an order of the district court sustaining a motion to dismiss his petition for a writ of ha-beas corpus, directed against Alfred F. Dowd, warden of the Indiana state prison, in which petitioner is confined.
We now set forth the relevant facts found in the petition for habeas corpus.
Petitioner was charged by affidavit, filed October 12, 1946, No. 7641, in the circuit court of Clark county, Indiana, with the crime of bank robbery while armed, and being an habitual criminal. There was then pending another affidavit, No. 7632, filed in said…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- United States of America Ex Rel. Charles Westbrook v. Ross v. Randolph, Warden of the Illinois State Penitentiary, Menard, IllinoisCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1958
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