James Dean Walker v. O. E. Bishop, Superintendent of Arkansas State Penitentiary

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that “there is as much obligation on the part of the judge not to recuse himself when there is no occasion for so doing as there is to recuse himself when such an occasion exists”
• stating that “there is as much obligation on the part of the judge not to recuse himself when there is no occasion for so doing as there is to recuse himself when such an occasion exists”
• stating that “there is as much obligation on the part of the judge not to recuse himself when there is no occasion for so doing as there is to recuse himself when such an occasion exists”
• stating that “there is as much obligation on the part of the judge not to recuse himself when there is no occasion for so doing as there is to recuse himself when such an occasion exists”
• “[T]here is as much obligation on the part of the judge not to recuse himself when there is no occasion for so doing as there is to recuse himself when such an occasion exists.”
• trial for murder in Arkansas; most of publicity was fourteen months before trial; one article appeared several months before trial discussing this and another case and suggesting that death was the only suitable penalty for offenders like defendant

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).