General
Watts v. Indiana
336 U.S. 917·Supreme Court of the United States·1949
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Opinion
No. 344, Misc.
Watts v. Indiana.
Thurgood Marshall, Franklin H. Williams and Henry J. Richardson for petitioner. J. Emmett McMan amon, Attorney General of Indiana, Frank E. Coughlin, Deputy Attorney General, and Earl R. Cox for respondent.
[MAJORITY]
Petition for writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of Indiana granted and case ordered transferred to the appellate docket. The stay order of January 31, 1949, is continued and it is ordered that execution of the sentence of death be stayed pending the final disposition of this case by this Court.