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· 1/10/1916

Ex parte Whitt

Citations

  • 239 U.S. 636
  • 36 S. Ct. 283
  • 60 L. Ed. 479
  • 1916 U.S. LEXIS 1358

How courts have described this case

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  • “The defendant’s identity in an habitual criminal proceeding is the key factual issue, and the burden is, of course, on the State to establish that the defendant is the same individual who was convicted previously”

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