STATE v. BOMAR


300 S.W.2d 875 (1957)

STATE of Tennessee ex rel. Cecil MELTON v. Lynn BOMAR, Warden.

Supreme Court of Tennessee.

March 8, 1957.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James C. Cunningham, Clarksville, Louis B. Fine, Norfolk, Va., for plaintiff in error.

Henry C. Foutch, Asst. Atty. Gen., for defendant in error.


PREWITT, Justice.

This is a habeas corpus proceeding in which the relator Cecil Melton seeks to be released from the State Prison on the ground that he did not have an attorney at the time of the trial of his case at Clarksville.

It seems from the record that the defendant, Cecil Melton, and James Hines were young soldiers in the camp at Camp Campbell, a few miles north of Clarksville.

These two defendants were indicted and convicted of robbery of...

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