Legal Opinion
Brooks Lee Anderson v. Wilburn C. Johnson, Warden, Tennessee State Penitentiary
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided December 22, 1966No. 16533_1PublishedCited by 14 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HARRY PHILLIPS, Circuit Judge.
This is an appeal from the order of the district court denying appellant’s petition for a writ of habeas corpus.
Appellant, a Negro, was tried in the Circuit Court of Maury County, Tennessee, in 1949, under an indictment charging him with the crime of rape of a girl under fifteen years of age. The jury returned a verdict of guilty and fixed his sentence at forty-nine years and one day. Details as to appellant’s previous criminal record and his personal history are set forth in the dissenting opinion of Judge McAllister.
In his trial in the State court appellant was…
2Cases cited28 opinions
- Miranda v. ArizonaSupreme Court of the United States · 1966
- Escobedo v. IllinoisSupreme Court of the United States · 1964
- Swain v. AlabamaSupreme Court of the United States · 1965
- Johnson v. New JerseySupreme Court of the United States · 1966
- Brown v. AllenSupreme Court of the United States · 1953
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3Cited by14 opinions
- State v. GlennOhio Supreme Court · 1986
- Thomas Townsend and Roosevelt Terry v. C. Murray Henderson, Warden, Tennessee State PenitentiaryCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1968
- Robert Emanuel Sciberras v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 1968
- United States v. Z. T. Osborn, Jr., Z. T. Osborn, Jr. v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1969
- Ernest Cox v. Harold J. Cardwell, WardenCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1972
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