Legal Opinion
Fleenor v. Hammond
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided January 13, 1941No. 8446PublishedCited by 55 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SIMONS, Circuit Judge.
The appellant, by petition for a writ of habeas corpus, assails the constitutional validity of his confinement in the Kentucky State Reformatory upon the revocation of a conditional pardon granted to him by the Governor. The District Judge, though concluding that the appellant’s constitutional rights had been invaded, dismissed the writ but issued a certificate of probable cause to permit decision by us following the precedent adopted by his predecessor to which we gave approval in Jones v. Commonwealth of Kentucky, 6 Cir., 97 F.2d 335.
The facts upon which the petitioner…
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