Allen v. Illinois

Supreme Court of the United States

Decided October 23, 1939.

Supreme Court of the United States · decided 1939-10-23

1 counsel of record

Relies on The People v. Allen · State v. Gendusa

Good law ✅— No negative treatment on recordhow we know

Decided 1939-10-23

How this case has been cited

Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently October 1997

12 state decisions

Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.

View the full empirical analysis of this case →

¶1Mr. Wm. Scott Stewart for appellant in No. 406. Mr. M. C. Scharff for appellant in No. 448. No appearance for appellees.

¶2.Per Curiam;

¶3The appeals are dismissed for want of jurisdiction. Section 237 (a), Judicial Code, as amended by the Act of February 13, 1925 (43 Stat. 936, 937). Treating the papers whereon the appeals were allowed as petitions for writs of certiorari, as required by § 237 (c) of the Judicial Code, as amended (43 Stat. 936, 938), certiorari is denied. The motions for leave to proceed further in forma pauperis are also denied.

¶4Reported below: No. 406, 368 Ill. 368; 14 N. E. 2d 397; and No. 448, 193 La. 59; 190 So. 332.