MARSH v. HENDERSON


424 S.W.2d 193 (1968)

Bobby MARSH v. C. Murray HENDERSON, Warden Tennessee State Penitentiary.

Supreme Court of Tennessee.

January 26, 1968.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Walter Baker Harris, Jackson, for plaintiff in error.

George F. McCanless, Atty. Gen., and Robert H. Roberts, Asst. Atty. Gen., Nashville, for the State.


BURNETT, Chief Justice.

OPINION

This is a habeas corpus petition, but it is unlike any other that we have had before this Court. After having an evidentiary hearing on this petition it was denied and an appeal has been seasonably perfected.

On April 12, 1954, the petitioner, Marsh, was arrested and charged with murder in the first degree in Madison County. In the early part of May of that year on a plea of present insanity he was committed to the...

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