CARR v. HENDERSON

No. 17488.

385 F.2d 531 (1967)

Wesley CARR, Jr., Petitioner-Appellant, v. C. Murray HENDERSON, Warden, Tennessee State Penitentiary, Respondent-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Sixth Circuit.

November 22, 1967.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas H. Peebles, III, Nashville, Tenn. (Court Appointed), Trabue, Minick, Sturdivant & Harbison, Nashville, Tenn., for appellant.

Ed R. Davies, Special Counsel State of Tennessee, Nashville, Tenn., George F. McCanless, Atty. Gen. and Reporter, State of Tennessee, Nashville, Tenn., of counsel, for appellee.

Before PHILLIPS, EDWARDS and PECK, Circuit Judges.


PHILLIPS, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from the order of the District Court denying appellant's second petition for federal habeas corpus.

Appellant was arrested in Memphis, Tennessee, in 1962, on a charge of car theft. Subsequent investigation by the authorities, while appellant was still in custody, led to three charges of armed robbery and two charges of rape. Appellant confessed to all these crimes, and at his trial while represented by court-appointed...

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