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STATE v. HENDERSON

424 S.W.2d 186 (1968)

STATE of Tennessee ex rel. Ollie NEWSOM v. C. Murray HENDERSON, Warden, Tennessee State Penitentiary.

Supreme Court of Tennessee.

January 26, 1968.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William Buford Bates, Nashville, for plaintiff in error.

George F. McCanless, Atty. Gen., and Robert H. Roberts, Asst. Atty. Gen., Nashville, for defendant in error; and Robert Brandt and John Hollins, Asst. Dist. Atts. Gen., Nashville, prosecuted the case in the trial court.

OPINION

BURNETT, Chief Justice.

This habeas corpus petition was dismissed below by the trial judge after an evidentiary hearing. There was no bill of exceptions preserved of this evidentiary hearing because the Public Defender, who represented Newsom in this hearing, concluded that there was absolutely nothing in the record which would be beneficial one way or the other to the plaintiff in error and preserving the record would be entirely frivolous. The...

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