Elbert Phillip Long v. Steven Smith, Superintendent, Kentucky State Reformatory at Lagrange, Kentucky

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• “Ordinarily, a person who commits an act in self-defense does not flee from the law after committing his act.”
• “Ordinarily, a person who commits an act in self-defense does not flee from the law after committing his act.”
• “Ordinarily, a person who commits an act in self-defense does not flee from the law after committing his act.”
• “In a habeas corpus proceeding, it is not the province of a federal appellate court to review the decision of the state's highest court on purely state law.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).