Legal Opinion

Recor v. State

Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee

Decided September 14, 1972PublishedCited by 20 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

OPINION

RUSSELL, Judge.

This post-conviction proceeding is before us for disposition.

Alfred W. Recor pled guilty to first degree murder and received an agreed sentence of seventy-five (75) years in the penitentiary. He has since unsuccessfully prosecuted one State post-conviction petition (see Recor v. State, Tenn.Cr.App., 472 S.W.2d 894) raising questions of evidence sufficiency, the alleged necessity for the jury to have set the degree of homicide that he was guilty of, and alleged lack of confrontation of the witnesses; and has since again litigated essentially the same questions in the U.S.…

2Cases cited5 opinions

  1. Dan Joseph Reed v. C. Murray Henderson, Warden, Tennessee State PenitentiaryCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1967
  2. State Ex Rel. Barnes v. HendersonTennessee Supreme Court · 1968
  3. Arthur v. StateTennessee Supreme Court · 1972
  4. Trolinger v. RussellCourt of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee · 1969
  5. Recor v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee · 1971

3Cited by20 opinions

  1. House v. StateTennessee Supreme Court · 1995
  2. Swanson v. StateTennessee Supreme Court · 1988
  3. Caruthers v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee · 1991
  4. Workman v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee · 1993
  5. Ellison v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee · 1976

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