STATE v. EDWARDS


277 S.W.2d 444 (1955)

STATE of Tennessee ex rel. Charles S. GOSNELL v. James E. EDWARDS, Warden, etc.

Supreme Court of Tennessee.

March 11, 1955.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

C. D. Berry and William H. Crabtree, Nashville, for plaintiff in error.

Nat Tipton, Asst. Atty. Gen., for the State.


BURNETT, Justice.

This petition for habeas corpus was dismissed by the trial judge. The record was seasonably made up, and an appeal duly perfected to this Court where excellent briefs have been filed, able arguments heard and we now have the matter for disposition.

At the September Term of 1934 of the Circuit Court of Greene County the relator was arraigned on a charge of murder in the first degree, plead guilty thereto and his punishment was fixed by the...

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