DAWSON v. BOMAR

No. 15247.

322 F.2d 445 (1963)

Clayton DAWSON, Petitioner-Appellant, v. Lynn BOMAR, Warden, Tennessee State Penitentiary, Respondent-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Sixth Circuit.

September 25, 1963.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Fred P. Graham, Nashville, Tenn., for appellant.

Henry C. Foutch, Asst. Atty. Gen., State of Tennessee, Nashville, Tenn. (George F. McCanless, Atty. Gen., State of Tennessee, Nashville, Tenn., on brief), for appellee.

Before O'SULLIVAN, Circuit Judge, and KENT and WILSON, District Judges.


FRANK W. WILSON, District Judge.

The appellant has petitioned for habeas corpus to obtain relief from a Tennessee State Court conviction and sentence of death for the crime of rape. Petitioner asserts that the failure of the Tennessee Legislature to reapportion itself since 1901 as required by the Constitution of Tennessee1 violates the equal protection of the laws requirement of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution...

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