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Martin v. Henderson

District Court, E.D. Tennessee

Decided December 26, 1967No. Civ. A. No. 2169PublishedCited by 6 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

NEESE, District Judge.

The petitioner Mr. Martin claims that he is being unlawfully detained by the state of Tennessee in its penitentiary at Nashville, Tennessee by the respondent warden, in violation of rights guaranteed him by the federal Constitution. His application for the federal writ of habeas corpus was transferred here from the United States District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee, 28 U.S.C. § 2241.

Mr. Martin was convicted in the Circuit Court of Cocke County, Tennessee on May 17, 1966 on his plea of guilty to an indictment charging him with…

2Cases cited11 opinions

  1. Baker v. CarrSupreme Court of the United States · 1962
  2. Kercheval v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1927
  3. White v. MarylandSupreme Court of the United States · 1963
  4. Walker v. JohnstonSupreme Court of the United States · 1941
  5. Kidd v. McCanlessTennessee Supreme Court · 1956

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3Cited by6 opinions

  1. Clark v. StateIdaho Supreme Court · 1969
  2. Charles Alexander v. David Harris, as Superintendent of Green Haven Correctional FacilityCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1979
  3. Lawson v. NeilDistrict Court, E.D. Tennessee · 1969
  4. Charles Alexander v. David Harris, as Superintendent of Green Haven Correctional FacilityCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1979
  5. N.C. State Conf. of NAACP v. MooreSupreme Court of North Carolina · 2022

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