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  People V. Shepherd 141 Cal.App.2d 367, District Court of Appeal, Second District, Division 3, California, Docket Number CR. 5544 (5/8/1956) Defendants were convicted of grand theft of money. The Superior Court, Los Angeles County, Thomas L. Ambrose, J., entered judgment, and one defendant appealed. The District Court of Appeal, Shinn, P. J., held that evidence was sufficient to sustain conviction. Judgment affirmed. 1956 Cases    
  Petitioner's Opening Brief., Konigsberg V. California Supreme Court of the United States, Docket Number No. 5 (10/15/1956) No written opinion has been handed down by any Court or other tribunal in this matter. On February 8, 1954, after hearings before the Southern Subcommittee of the Committee of Bar Examiners... 1956 Briefs    
  Petitioner's Opening Brief., Konigsberg V. California Supreme Court of the United States, Docket Number No. 5 (10/15/1956) No written opinion has been handed down by any Court or other tribunal in this matter. On February 8, 1954, after hearings before the Southern Subcommittee of the Committee of Bar Examiners... 1956 Briefs    
  Ramirez V. State 163 Tex.Crim. 491, Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas, Docket Number 28311 (5/9/1956) Defendant was convicted of possession of marijuana. The 47th Judicial District Court, Potter County, E. E. Jordan, J., entered judgment, and defendant appealed. The Court of Criminal Appeals held that prosecutor did not commit reversible error in calling jury's attention to fact that some marijuana finds its way into possession of high school... 1956 Cases    
  Ramirez V. State 163 Tex.Crim. 491, Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas, Docket Number 28311 (5/9/1956) Defendant was convicted of possession of marijuana. The 47th Judicial District Court, Potter County, E. E. Jordan, J., entered judgment, and defendant appealed. The Court of Criminal Appeals held that prosecutor did not commit reversible error in calling jury's attention to fact that some marijuana finds its way into possession of high school... 1956 Cases    
Hershel Shanks State Action and the Girard Estate Case 105 University of Pennsylvania Law Review 213 (December, 1956) Stephen Girard was a man of grand conception. But even his spacious imagination could not have envisaged the impact his carefully-drawn will was to have on the legal world. Dead these 125 years, Girard has attained immortality in the law for the legal controversies engendered by the famous will. Without challenge, the thirty-two page document lays... 1956 Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources    
Hershel Shanks State Action and the Girard Estate Case 105 University of Pennsylvania Law Review 213 (December, 1956) Stephen Girard was a man of grand conception. But even his spacious imagination could not have envisaged the impact his carefully-drawn will was to have on the legal world. Dead these 125 years, Girard has attained immortality in the law for the legal controversies engendered by the famous will. Without challenge, the thirty-two page document lays... 1956 Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources    
  State ex Rel. Copeland V. Mayo 87 So.2d 501, Supreme Court of Florida, En Banc (4/27/1956) Original habeas corpus proceeding. A prior habeas corpus petition was denied by Florida Supreme Court and certiorari to United States Supreme Court was denied, 350 U.S. 851, 76 S.Ct. 92. The Supreme Court, Terrell, J., held that petitioner, who had ample opportunity during trial to present grounds now insisted upon as basis for granting of writ of... 1956 Cases    
  State ex Rel. Copeland V. Mayo 87 So.2d 501, Supreme Court of Florida, En Banc (4/27/1956) Original habeas corpus proceeding. A prior habeas corpus petition was denied by Florida Supreme Court and certiorari to United States Supreme Court was denied, 350 U.S. 851, 76 S.Ct. 92. The Supreme Court, Terrell, J., held that petitioner, who had ample opportunity during trial to present grounds now insisted upon as basis for granting of writ of... 1956 Cases    
  State ex Rel. Fox V. La Porte Circuit Court 236 Ind. 69, Supreme Court of Indiana, Docket Number 29396 (12/17/1956) Proceeding on petition of state for writ of mandate to require trial judge to expunge records of court of entry granting change of venue in murder case. The Supreme Court, Bobbitt, J., held that murder accused, who had been granted change of venue to another county, could not, after his motion for new trial after conviction had been granted, obtain... 1956 Cases   This has some negative history but hasn’t been reversed or overruled.
  State ex Rel. Fox V. La Porte Circuit Court 236 Ind. 69, Supreme Court of Indiana, Docket Number 29396 (12/17/1956) Proceeding on petition of state for writ of mandate to require trial judge to expunge records of court of entry granting change of venue in murder case. The Supreme Court, Bobbitt, J., held that murder accused, who had been granted change of venue to another county, could not, after his motion for new trial after conviction had been granted, obtain... 1956 Cases   This has some negative history but hasn’t been reversed or overruled.
  State V. Special Tax School Dist. No. 1 of Dade County 86 So.2d 419, Supreme Court of Florida, Division A (3/26/1956) Special tax school district filed petition to validate school bonds. The Circuit Court, Dade County, Marshall C. Wiseheart, J., entered decree validating proposed bonds and all proceedings indicent to validation and the state appealed. The Supreme Court, Terrell, J., held that re-registration of freeholders provided for by Special Act, duly passed,... 1956 Cases    
  State V. Special Tax School Dist. No. 1 of Dade County 86 So.2d 419, Supreme Court of Florida, Division A (3/26/1956) Special tax school district filed petition to validate school bonds. The Circuit Court, Dade County, Marshall C. Wiseheart, J., entered decree validating proposed bonds and all proceedings indicent to validation and the state appealed. The Supreme Court, Terrell, J., held that re-registration of freeholders provided for by Special Act, duly passed,... 1956 Cases    
  State V. Washington 230 La. 181, Supreme Court of Louisiana, Docket Number 42701 (3/26/1956) Prosecution for murder. The First Judicial District Court, Parish of Caddo, Robert J. O'Neal, J., denied defendants' motion for a new trial filed after entry of sentence, and defendants appealed. The Supreme Court, Ponder, J., held that under statute, trial court could not entertain new trial motions filed more than two months after conviction and... 1956 Cases    
  State V. Washington 230 La. 181, Supreme Court of Louisiana, Docket Number 42701 (3/26/1956) Prosecution for murder. The First Judicial District Court, Parish of Caddo, Robert J. O'Neal, J., denied defendants' motion for a new trial filed after entry of sentence, and defendants appealed. The Supreme Court, Ponder, J., held that under statute, trial court could not entertain new trial motions filed more than two months after conviction and... 1956 Cases    
Lewis M. Stevens The Life and Character of Earl G. Harrison 104 University of Pennsylvania Law Review 591 (March, 1956) A college student once complained to Wendell Phillips, noted Harvard teacher and reformer, that the day of great causes was over. Mr. Phillips marched the young man to the door of his Boston house, opened it, pointed to the people walking by, and said: They are the greatest cause in the world. It was the struggle for wider opportunities for... 1956 Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources    
Lewis M. Stevens The Life and Character of Earl G. Harrison 104 University of Pennsylvania Law Review 591 (March, 1956) A college student once complained to Wendell Phillips, noted Harvard teacher and reformer, that the day of great causes was over. Mr. Phillips marched the young man to the door of his Boston house, opened it, pointed to the people walking by, and said: They are the greatest cause in the world. It was the struggle for wider opportunities for... 1956 Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources    
Theodore Hsi-en Chen The Pitiful and the Proud. 105 University of Pennsylvania Law Review 137 (November, 1956) Carl T. Rowan, a staff writer of the Minneapolis Star and Tribune, was invited by the United States Department of State in 1954 to spend three months in India giving lectures on The Role of the Newspaper in Social Change under the International Educational Exchange Program. After his mission in India, he briefly visited various countries in... 1956 Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources    
Theodore Hsi-en Chen The Pitiful and the Proud. 105 University of Pennsylvania Law Review 137 (November, 1956) Carl T. Rowan, a staff writer of the Minneapolis Star and Tribune, was invited by the United States Department of State in 1954 to spend three months in India giving lectures on The Role of the Newspaper in Social Change under the International Educational Exchange Program. After his mission in India, he briefly visited various countries in... 1956 Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources    
  The Supreme Court, 1955 Term 70 Harvard Law Review 95 (November, 1956) C1-5TABLE OF CONTENTS L1-5 I. L2-4,T4Business of the Court 97 L1-5 II. L2-4,T4Constitutional Law 107 A. L3-4,T4Military Jurisdiction 107. Jurisdiction Over Civilian Ex-Servicemen. 107 Jurisdiction Over Civilians Accompanying the Armed Forces. 109 Other Assertions of Jurisdiction. 112 B. L3-4,T4Self Incrimination 113. Federal Immunity Act. 113 C.... 1956 Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources    
  The Supreme Court, 1955 Term 70 Harvard Law Review 95 (November, 1956) C1-5TABLE OF CONTENTS L1-5 I. L2-4,T4Business of the Court 97 L1-5 II. L2-4,T4Constitutional Law 107 A. L3-4,T4Military Jurisdiction 107. Jurisdiction Over Civilian Ex-Servicemen. 107 Jurisdiction Over Civilians Accompanying the Armed Forces. 109 Other Assertions of Jurisdiction. 112 B. L3-4,T4Self Incrimination 113. Federal Immunity Act. 113 C.... 1956 Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources    
  U.s. V. Copeland U.S. Air Force Board of Review, Docket Number ACM 11674 (3/28/1956) Sentences adjudged 16 September 1955 by General Court-Martial convened at Wheelus Field, Tripoli, Libya. Approved sentence as to each: Dishonorable discharge, total forfeitures and confinement at hard labor for seven (7) years. 1956 Cases    
  U.s. V. Copeland U.S. Air Force Board of Review, Docket Number ACM 11674 (3/28/1956) Sentences adjudged 16 September 1955 by General Court-Martial convened at Wheelus Field, Tripoli, Libya. Approved sentence as to each: Dishonorable discharge, total forfeitures and confinement at hard labor for seven (7) years. 1956 Cases    
  U.s. V. Harris Court of Military Appeals, Docket Number 6930 (3/30/1956) On mandatory review. CM 376575, not reported below. Affirmed. 1956 Cases    
  U.s. V. Harris Court of Military Appeals, Docket Number 6930 (3/30/1956) On mandatory review. CM 376575, not reported below. Affirmed. 1956 Cases    
  Walker V. State 229 Miss. 540, Supreme Court of Mississippi, Docket Number 40269 (12/17/1956) Prosecution for feloniously receiving stolen property. The Circuit Court, Bolivar County, E. H. Green, J., overruled defendant's motion for a new trial and entered judgment of conviction and defendant appealed. The Supreme Court, Lee, J., held that evidence sustained conviction. Affirmed. 1956 Cases    
  Walker V. State 229 Miss. 540, Supreme Court of Mississippi, Docket Number 40269 (12/17/1956) Prosecution for feloniously receiving stolen property. The Circuit Court, Bolivar County, E. H. Green, J., overruled defendant's motion for a new trial and entered judgment of conviction and defendant appealed. The Supreme Court, Lee, J., held that evidence sustained conviction. Affirmed. 1956 Cases    
  Watts V. Housing Authority of Birmingham Dist. 150 F.Supp. 552, United States District Court, N.D. Alabama, Southern Division, Docket Number CIV. 7690 (11/30/1956) Action for declaratory judgment instituted as a spurious class action. The United States District Court for the Northern District of Alabama, Southern Division, Lynne, Chief Judge, held that where common relief in behalf of two distinct classes of plaintiffs was not sought, and a serious question of constitutional law raised by one group was not... 1956 Cases    
  Watts V. Housing Authority of Birmingham Dist. 150 F.Supp. 552, United States District Court, N.D. Alabama, Southern Division, Docket Number CIV. 7690 (11/30/1956) Action for declaratory judgment instituted as a spurious class action. The United States District Court for the Northern District of Alabama, Southern Division, Lynne, Chief Judge, held that where common relief in behalf of two distinct classes of plaintiffs was not sought, and a serious question of constitutional law raised by one group was not... 1956 Cases    
  Whitley V. Warden of Md. House of Correction 209 Md. 629, Court of Appeals of Maryland, Docket Number 23 (2/9/1956) Proceeding for writ of habeas corpus. On application for leave to appeal from denial of writ, the Court of Appeals, Hammond, J., held that in absence of facts establishing knowing participation by state's officers in use of perjured testimony, mere allegations that it was used were insufficient to justify issuance of writ. Application denied. 1956 Cases    
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