COCHRAN v. NORVELL

No. 20937.

446 F.2d 61 (1971)

Harvey Ray COCHRAN, Petitioner-Appellant, v. Willard NORVELL, Warden, etc., Respondent-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

August 13, 1971.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

G. Thomas Shields, Nashville, Tenn. (Court Appointed), for appellant.

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

Before PHILLIPS, Chief Judge, and EDWARDS and CELEBREZZE, Circuit Judges.


CELEBREZZE, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from the United States District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee, Nashville Division, of an order dismissing a petition for habeas corpus. This is the second time after Appellant was convicted and incarcerated in Tennessee in 1946 pursuant to a guilty plea on a charge of murder in the first degree that he has petitioned the federal courts with a writ of habeas corpus challenging the lawfulness of his state custody...

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