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NICHOLS v. HENDERSON

No. 17650.

389 F.2d 990 (1968)

Claude W. NICHOLS, Petitioner-Appellant, v. C. Murray HENDERSON, Warden, Tennessee State Penitentiary, Respondent-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Sixth Circuit.

February 28, 1968.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Vincent E. Wehby (Court Appointed), Nashville, Tenn., for appellant.

David W. McMackin, Asst. Atty. Gen., Nashville, Tenn., for appellee; Henry C. Foutch, Nashville, Tenn., on brief; George F. McCanless, Atty. Gen., and Reporter, State of Tenn., of counsel.

Before WEICK, Chief Judge, and PHILLIPS and COMBS, Circuit Judges.

PHILLIPS, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from the denial of a petition for writ of habeas corpus in which appellant sought to void his conviction for first degree murder for which he was sentenced to ninety-nine years in the State penitentiary.

The conviction was affirmed by the Supreme Court of Tennessee in a comprehensive opinion. Nichols v. State of Tennessee, 200 Tenn. 65, 289 S.W.2d 849. Parallel civil litigation...

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