Legal Opinion
Holiday v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee
Decided November 22, 1972PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
O’BRIEN, Judge.
Appeal from dismissal of a petition for post-conviction relief without an eviden-tiary hearing.
Error is assigned to the trial court’s action in sustaining the State’s demurrer to the petition which alleges systematic exclusion of negroes from the grand jury which returned the indictment against him.
The petition in this cause was filed on April 10th, 1972. Counsel was appointed on April 13th, 1972. On April 27th, 1972, a demurrer to the petition was filed on the premise that the allegations contained in the petition constituted no grounds for legal relief. The cause came…
2Cases cited26 opinions
- Fay v. NoiaSupreme Court of the United States · 1963
- Parker v. North CarolinaSupreme Court of the United States · 1970
- Agnew v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1897
- Parker v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1970
- Kirkendoll v. StateTennessee Supreme Court · 1955
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3Cited by7 opinions
- House v. StateTennessee Supreme Court · 1995
- Workman v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee · 1993
- McCrary v. StateMissouri Court of Appeals · 1975
- Woodson v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee · 1978
- James v. BallCourt of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee · 1997
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