BROWN

v.

HUNTER, WARDEN, ET AL.

Citator

Cited By

• United States ex rel. Weber v. Ragen, 176 F.2d 579 (7th Cir. 1949)
  …ment of conviction. The People v. Weber, 401 Ill. 584, 83 N.E. 2d 297. A petition for rehearing was made and denied January 12, 1949. Certiorari was sought in the Supreme Court of the United States and denied May 2, 1949. Weber v. State of Illinois, 336 U.S. 969, 69 S.Ct. 930. The petitioner sought without success to file a petition for habeas corpus in the Peoria Circuit Court. On December 8, 1948, the petitioner filed, as a poor person, in the District Court of the United States for the Northern Distric…
• Dodson v. Colonel Gordon N. Zelez, 917 F.2d 1250 (10th Cir. 1990)
  …89 (10th Cir.) (“The mandatory provisions ... imposed a compulsory duty upon the board to sentence petitioner to death or life imprisonment upon a finding of guilt. It had no alternative but to comply with the legislative direction.”), cert. denied, 336 U.S. 969, 69 S.Ct. 940, 93 L.Ed. 1120 (1949). The statutory provisions relating to courts-martial generally do not compel any rule establishing a minimum concurrence in a mandatory life sentence. The statutory provision prescribing a minimum life sentence c…
• Anderson v. Hunter, 177 F.2d 770 (10th Cir. 1949)
  …one sanctioned by law. The only sentence the court-martial had authority to impose was death or life imprisonment. The court could choose between those two, but it had no other alternative. Brown v. Hunter, 10 Cir., 172 F. 2d 487, certiorari denied, 336 U.S. 969, 69 S.Ct. 940. The second sentence being the minimum authorized by law and being fixed and announced almost immediately after the first [*772] did not constitute double jeopardy within the meaning of the constitutional provision or the Article of W…