Legal Opinion
Watts v. State of Tennessee
District Court, M.D. Tennessee
Decided June 27, 1984No. Civ. A. 3:84-0505PublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION, ORDERS AND CERTIFICATE
NEESE, Senior District Judge,
Sitting by Designation and Assignment.
The petitioner Mr. Wendell Gene Watts seeks the federal writ of habeas corpus, 28 U.S.C. § 2254(a), on the ground he is being deprived of his claimed constitutional right to a transcript of his trial. His conviction was affirmed on direct appeal, and his application for permission to appeal to the Supreme Court of Tennessee was denied on January 31, 1983. State v. Watts, 649 S.W.2d 4 (Tenn.Crim.App.1982).
Mr. Watts was convicted in the Criminal Court of Maury County, Tennessee of…
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