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[CITE: 28USC2247]

 
               TITLE 28--JUDICIARY AND JUDICIAL PROCEDURE
 
                     PART VI--PARTICULAR PROCEEDINGS
 
                       CHAPTER 153--HABEAS CORPUS
 
Sec. 2247. Documentary evidence

    On application for a writ of habeas corpus documentary evidence, 
transcripts of proceedings upon arraignment, plea and sentence and a 
transcript of the oral testimony introduced on any previous similar 
application by or in behalf of the same petitioner, shall be admissible 
in evidence.

(June 25, 1948, ch. 646, 62 Stat. 966.)


                      Historical and Revision Notes

    Derived from H.R. 4232, Seventy-ninth Congress, first session. It is 
declaratory of existing law and practice.
