WOOD

v.

MISSISSIPPI

Citator

Cited By

• United States v. Bernett, 495 F.2d 943 (D.C. Cir. 1974)
  …v. Richmond, 365 U.S. 534, 540-541, 81 S.Ct. 735, 5 L.Ed.2d 760 (1961). . Blackburn v. Alabama, supra note 30, 361 U.S. at 207, 80 S.Ct. 274. . See Part III(G), infra. . Mergner v. United States, 79 U.S.App.D.C. 373, 147 F. 2d 572, cert. denied, 325 U.S. 850, 65 S.Ct. 1085, 89 L.Ed. 1971 (1945); McAffee v. United States, 72 App.D.C. 60, 65, 111 F. 2d 199, 204, cert. denied, 310 U.S. 643, 60 S.Ct. 1094, 84 L.Ed. 1410 (1940); Bell v. United States, 60 App.D.C. 76, 77, 47 F. 2d 438, 439 (1931). . Blackbur…

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• McKINNEY v. Warden, United States Penitentiary, Leavenworth, Kansas, 273 F.2d 643 (10th Cir. 1959)
  …As to rape the same article fixes the penalty as “death or such other punishment as a court-martial may direct.” In Anderson v. Hunter, 10 Cir., 177 F. 2d 770, 771, this court followed Stout v. Hancock, 4 Cir., 146 F. 2d 741, 744, certiorari denied 325 U.S. 850, 65 S.Ct. 1086, 89 L.Ed. 1971, and held that when the chargé is murder and the sentence life imprisonment it is sufficient if two-thirds or more concur in the conviction and three-fourths or more in the sentence. The same rule applies when the charg…
• Mendrano v. Smith, 797 F.2d 1538 (10th Cir. 1986)
  …fourths of the members. McKinney v. Warden, United States Penitentiary, 273 F. 2d 643, 644 (10th Cir.1959), cert. denied, 363 U.S. 816, 80 S.Ct. 1253, 4 L.Ed.2d 1156 (1960). See also Stout v. Hancock, 146 F. 2d 741, 744 (4th Cir.1944), cert. denied, 325 U.S. 850, 65 S.Ct. 1086, 89 L.Ed. 1971 (1945). Like the percentage required to convict under the two-thirds rule, the actual percentage of votes required for sentencing under the three-fourths rule varies according to the size of the court-martial, from a hi…