State ex rel. Tines v. Bomar

This is an appeal from the judgment of the Circuit Court of Knox County, Tennessee, dismissing the petition for writ of habeas corpus and quashing the writ. Tines, hereinafter called relator, filed his petition for writ of habeas corpus on May 11, 1959, against Lynn Bomar, the Warden of the Tennessee State Penitentiary,» hereinafter referred to as respondent. The petition alleged he was under sentence of death by electrocution, which was set for May 12,1959, for the offense of rape, in accordance with the judgment of this Court. Tines v. State, 203 Tenn. 612, 315 S.W.2d 111, certiorari denied…