Legal Opinion
Beaver v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee
Decided August 20, 1971PublishedCited by 16 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION RUSSELL, Judge.
The appellant, Van Allen Beaver, was convicted of first degree murder in the Criminal Court of Shelby County in 1965, *558and his punishment was fixed at death hy electrocution. Execution of this sentence has been stayed during pendency, first, of his direct appeal (Beaver v. State, 220 Tenn. 133, 414 S.W.2d 841) wherein his conviction was affirmed; and, subsequently, for a final determination of this post-conviction proceeding.
A multiplicity of questions are raised by the petition for post-conviction relief, filed in 1969 by retained counsel. An evidenti-ary hearing was…
2Cases cited28 opinions
- Witherspoon v. IllinoisSupreme Court of the United States · 1968
- Boulden v. HolmanSupreme Court of the United States · 1969
- John Elmer Woodards v. H. J. Cardwell, Warden, Ohio PenitentiaryCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1970
- The People v. LeeIllinois Supreme Court · 1969
- Huffman v. StateTennessee Supreme Court · 1956
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3Cited by16 opinions
- Hunter v. StateTennessee Supreme Court · 1972
- Stanley v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1972
- Hodges v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee · 1973
- Hudson v. StateTennessee Supreme Court · 1975
- Beaver v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee · 1971
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