HORTON v. BOMAR

No. 15785.

335 F.2d 583 (1964)

Acie HORTON, Petitioner-Appellant, v. Lynn BOMAR, Warden, Tennessee State Penitentiary, Nashville, Tennessee, Respondent-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Sixth Circuit.

August 21, 1964.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. Allen Gehrig, Cincinnati, Ohio, court appointed, for appellant.

George F. McCanless, Atty. Gen., of Tennessee, Henry C. Foutch, Asst. Atty. Gen., Nashville, Tenn., for appellee.

Before CECIL and O'SULLIVAN, Circuit Judges, and BROWN, District Judge.


PER CURIAM.

This appeal is from an order of the United States District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee denying the appellant's petition for a writ of habeas corpus. The appellant was convicted in the Criminal Court of Shelby County at Memphis, Tennessee, of the crime of rape. He was sentenced to seventy-five years imprisonment in the State penitentiary.

The appellant now wants out. He probably does not understand that the granting of his petition...

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