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SOLESBEE v. BALKCOM, WARDEN (1950)

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SOLESBEE v. BALKCOM, WARDEN
Term: 1949
Important Dates
Argued: November 15, 1949
Decided: February 20, 1950
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
7-1
Majority
Hugo Black • Harold Burton • Tom Clark • Robert Jackson • Sherman Minton • Stanley Reed • Frederick Vinson
Dissenting
Felix Frankfurter

SOLESBEE v. BALKCOM, WARDEN is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on February 20, 1950. The case was argued before the court on November 15, 1949.

In a 7-1 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Georgia State Trial Court.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1940s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Vinson Court, click here.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Due Process - Due process: prisoners' rights and defendants' rights
  • Petitioner: Person allegedly criminally insane or mentally incompetent to stand trial
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: State
  • Respondent state: Georgia
  • Citation: 339 U.S. 9
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Appeal
  • What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
  • Who was the chief justice: Frederick Vinson
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: Hugo Black

These data points were accessed from The Supreme Court Database, which also attempts to categorize the ideological direction of the court's ruling in each case. This case's ruling was categorized as conservative.

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ Harold J. Spaeth, Lee Epstein, et al., "2023 Supreme Court Database, Version 2023 Release 1 and SCDB Legacy 07," accessed March 21, 2024
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