KIMBRO v. HENDERSON

No. 67-99-Civil.

277 F.Supp. 550 (1967)

Carl KIMBRO, Petitioner, v. C. Murray HENDERSON, Warden, Tennessee State Penitentiary, Respondent.

United States District Court W. D. Tennessee, W. D.

December 27, 1967.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James C. Blackburn, Memphis, Tenn., for petitioner.

Henry C. Foutch, Asst. Atty. Gen., Nashville, Tenn., for respondent.


OPINION

ROBERT M. McRAE, Jr., District Judge.

Petitioner, Carl Kimbro, is before this Court on his Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus. On November 19, 1960, petitioner was convicted of first degree murder and murder committed in the perpetration of a robbery. The jury fixed petitioner's punishment at death by electrocution, said sentence having been subsequently commuted to a term of ninety-nine years by the Governor of Tennessee.

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