State ex rel. Fields v. Henderson

OPINION

GALBREATH, Judge.

This is an appeal from the action of the Criminal Court of Shelby County in denying petitioner’s application for the Writ of Habeas Corpus.

This is the second petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus filed by James W. Fields, hereafter referred to as the defendant. The trial court treated the application in this case as a petition under the Post-Conviction Procedure Act. It was agreed by the defendant and his court-appointed counsel that matters relating to the alleged incompetence of his counsel in the trial resulting in conviction had been fully adjudicated in the prior…