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STATE v. HENDERSON

425 S.W.2d 593 (1968)

STATE of Tennessee ex rel. James DOYLE v. C. Murray HENDERSON, Warden, Tennessee State Penitentiary.

Supreme Court of Tennessee.

March 8, 1968.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Brett B. Stein, Memphis, for plaintiff in error.

George F. McCanless, Atty. Gen., and Paul E. Jennings, Asst. Atty. Gen., Nashville, for the State.

OPINION

BURNETT, Chief Justice.

The only question involved in this lawsuit is whether or not the plaintiff in error was denied his right to an appeal from his original conviction. After an evidentiary hearing in this petition for habeas corpus the trial court denied the petition, and it is from this denial that an appeal has been seasonably perfected.

The petitioner was indicted in 1954 for the offense of murder in the first degree. He was arraigned...

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