· 5/25/1925
Knewel v. Egan
Citations
- 268 U.S. 442
- 45 S. Ct. 522
- 69 L. Ed. 1036
- 1925 U.S. LEXIS 582
How courts have described this case
Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.
- “It is fundamental that a court upon which is conferred jurisdiction to try an offense has jurisdiction to determine whether or not that offense is charged or proved”
- “It has been uniformly held by this court that the sufficiency of 4 an indictment cannot be reviewed in habeas corpus proceedings.”
- “It is fundamen- tal that a court upon which is conferred jurisdiction to try an offense has jurisdiction to determine whether or not that offense is charged or proved”
- “[T]he judgment of state courts in criminal cases will not be reviewed on habeas corpus merely because some right under the Constitution . . . is alleged to have been denied to the person convicted”
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Judges: Stone
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