Legal Opinion
Myers v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee
Decided September 24, 1970PublishedCited by 41 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
OLIVER, Judge.
James Myers, the petitioner below, indigent and represented by court-appointed counsel, an inmate of the State Penitentiary where he is serving a 99-year rape sentence adjudged in the Criminal Court of Anderson County on October 1, 1957 upon his plea of guilty while represented by two court-appointed attorneys, is before this Court upon his appeal in the nature of a writ of error from the judgment of that court dismissing his habeas corpus petition filed under the provisions of the Post-Conviction Procedure Act (T.C.A. § 40-3801 et seq.) after an evidentiary hearing.
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2Cases cited27 opinions
- MacHibroda v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1962
- Kercheval v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1927
- State ex rel. Newsom v. HendersonTennessee Supreme Court · 1968
- Knewel v. EganSupreme Court of the United States · 1925
- State Ex Rel. Edmondson v. HendersonTennessee Supreme Court · 1967
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3Cited by41 opinions
- State v. BufordCourt of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee · 1983
- Gant v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee · 1973
- Bratton v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee · 1971
- Graves v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee · 1973
- Rickman v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee · 1997
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