Miller v. Bomar

WILLIAM E. MILLER, Chief Judge.

In this habeas corpus action, the petitioner, William Luther Miller, attacks the legality of his confinement in the Tennessee State Penitentiary under a sentence to life imprisonment as a habitual criminal imposed by the Criminal Court of Knox County, Tennessee. The principal contentions are that the petitioner’s constitutional rights to due process and equal protection were infringed (1) by the trial court’s denial of his statutory and absolute right of appeal, *206(2) by his counsel’s failure to prosecute such appeal, and (8) by the Tennessee Supreme Court’s…