CHANDLER

v.

WARDEN FRETAG

Citator

Cited By (13 total)

• Jones v. Kirkman, 138 So. 2d 513 (Fla. 1962)
  …this Court, have held that a notice and hearing are not organic essentials to validity of the suspension order. Thornhill v. Kirkman, supra; Wall v. King, supra; Gillaspie v. Department of Public Safety, 152 Tex. 459, 259 S.W. 2d 177, cert. denied, 347 U.S. 933, 74 S.Ct. 625, 98 L.Ed. 1084; Berberian v. Lussier, 1958, 87 R.I. 226, 139 A. 2d 869; Ratliff v. Lampton, 32 Cal.2d 226, 195 P. 2d 792, 10 A.L.R.2d 826, 839. Organic requirements are met if the legislative prescriptions are clear and reasonable, an…
• Chandler v. Warden Fretag, 348 U.S. 3 (U.S. 1954)
  …ate Penitentiary, under a sentence of life imprisonment as an habitual criminal. Challenging the validity of that sentence under the Fourteenth Amendment, he commenced this action in the Tennessee courts to obtain his freedom. We granted certiorari, 347 U. S. 933, because of the substantial question presented by his constitutional claim. The basic facts are undisputed. Petitioner is a middle-aged Negro of little education. He was indicted on March 10, 1949, for the offense of housebreaking and larceny, an o…
• Gonzales v. Cassidy, 474 F.2d 67 (5th Cir. 1973)
  …v. Cassidy, No. SA69CA153 (W.D.Tex., June 30, 1971, amended August 19, 1971). . Tex.Bev.Civ.Stat.Ann., Art. 6701h (1969). . 317 F.Supp., at 49. The court relied on Gillaspie v. Department of Public Safety, Tex., 259 S.W. 2d 177 (1953), cert. den., 347 U.S. 933, 74 S.Ct. 625, [*71] 98 L.Ed. 1084, in which the Texas Supreme Court upheld the Act under a similar constitutional attack. . Writing for a unanimous court, Mr. Justice Brennan declared: “Once licenses are issued, as in petitioner’s case, their con…