---
kind: "section"
citation: "28 U.S.C. § 2247"
title: "28"
title_heading: "Judiciary and Judicial Procedure"
number: "2247"
heading: "Documentary evidence"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/28/2247"
units:
  - "Part VI — Particular Proceedings"
  - "Chapter 153 — Habeas Corpus"
---

# §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](/usc/28/2341.md?p=2), shall be admissible in evidence.


## Source credit

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

## Notes

### Historical and Revision Notes

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