Johnnie L. Blake v. Robert v. Morford, Superintendent

JOHN W. PECK, Circuit Judge.

Appellant Blake was indicted by a Shelby County, Tennessee, grand jury on the charge that he “did unlawfully, feloniously, wilfully, deliberately, premeditatively, and of malice aforethought kill and murder Sandra Lee Mulherin.” Appellant’s first trial resulted in a mistrial, but at his second trial, he was convicted by a jury of first degree murder as charged in the indictment and was sentenced to ninety-nine years imprisonment. The conviction was affirmed by the Tennessee Court of Criminal Appeals, and the Tennessee Supreme Court denied appellant’s petition for…