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· 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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