HANCOCK v. TOLLETT

No. 20873.

447 F.2d 1323 (1971)

Don Lee HANCOCK, Appellant, v. Lewis TOLLETT, Warden, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

September 8, 1971.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

W. Clyde Russell (court appointed), Greeneville, Tenn., for appellant on brief.

R. Jackson Rose, Asst. Atty. Gen., Nashville, Tenn., David M. Pack, Atty. Gen., of counsel, for appellee on brief.

Before BROOKS and MILLER, Circuit Judges, and O'SULLIVAN, Senior Circuit Judge.


O'SULLIVAN, Senior Circuit Judge.

Petitioner-appellant, Don Lee Hancock, a prisoner of the State of Tennessee, appeals from denial, without evidentiary hearing, of his petition to a United States District Judge for a writ of habeas corpus. Petitioner, in July of 1967, had been convicted of armed robbery, upon trial in the Circuit Court of Bedford County, Tennessee. At trial and on appeal to the Court of Criminal Appeals...

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