Legal Opinion
Johnnie West v. C. Murray Henderson, Warden Tennessee State Penitentiary
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided April 7, 1969No. 18528PublishedCited by 15 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CECIL, Senior Circuit Judge.
This is an appeal by Johnnie West, petitioner-appellant, from an order of the United States District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee denying his petition for a writ of habeas corpus.
In the September 1962 term of the criminal court for Shelby County, Tennessee, West and co-defendant, Henry Clay Monts, with a third person were indicted for first degree murder and for murder in the perpetration of a burglary for the killing of Police Officer Frank Bruno on October 7, 1960. Monts was arrested in Chicago on September 25, 1962 and returned to Memphis on the…
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- Marshall v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1959
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3Cited by15 opinions
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- Richard Lee Kinser v. Bennett J. Cooper, Superintendent Ohio State ReformatoryCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1969
- Hodges v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee · 1973
- Joe J. B. O'Neil v. Louis S. Nelson, WardenCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1970
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