RUSSELL v. WILLIS


437 S.W.2d 529 (1969)

Lake F. RUSSELL, Warden, Petitioner, v. Tommy WILLIS, State ex rel., Respondent.

Supreme Court of Tennessee.

February 7, 1969.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

George F. McCanless, Atty. Gen., and Robert F. Hedgepath, Asst. Atty. Gen., Nashville, for petitioner; and Carl K. Kirkpatrick, Dist. Atty. Gen., Blountville, prosecuted the case in the trial court.

Larry R. Dillow, Kingsport, for respondent.


OPINION

CRESON, Justice.

The State seeks review in this Court of a judgment of the Court of Criminal Appeals, which reversed a decision of the Criminal Court of Sullivan County dismissing a petition for a writ of habeas corpus without evidentiary hearing.

The difficulties of this case derive, in no small part, from the deplorable state of the record. It must be said that the record we are furnished is as poor an example of record compilation as it...

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