Legal Opinion
Coffman v. Bomar
District Court, M.D. Tennessee
Decided August 9, 1963No. Civ. A. 3505PublishedCited by 27 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WILLIAM E. MILLER, Chief Judge.
The petitioner, Boyd Coffman, was indicted in the Criminal Court of Washington County, Tennessee, on the 15th day of January, 1960, for the crime of robbery by the use of a deadly weapon as defined under the provisions of T.C.A. § 39-3901. He was also indicted under a second count in the same indictment as being a habitual criminal. Since it appeared that the petitioner was an indigent, the Court appointed two members of the Washington County Bar, J. E. Vaughan and B. B. Snipes, to represent him. Also, as the state sought the death penalty, the Court appointed a…
2Cases cited12 opinions
- Griffin v. IllinoisSupreme Court of the United States · 1956
- Douglas v. CaliforniaSupreme Court of the United States · 1963
- Draper v. WashingtonSupreme Court of the United States · 1963
- Lane v. BrownSupreme Court of the United States · 1963
- Dowd v. United States Ex Rel. CookSupreme Court of the United States · 1951
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3Cited by27 opinions
- Aubrey Pate v. William C. Holman, Warden, Kilby Prison, AlabamaCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1965
- Zackus H. Ingram v. C. C. Peyton, Superintendent of the Virginia State PenitentiaryCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1966
- Robert Glen Sutton and Paul S. Sutton v. Russell E. Lash, Warden, Indiana State PrisonCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1978
- State Ex Rel. Dych v. BomarTennessee Supreme Court · 1964
- Vincent v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Alabama · 1992
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