Wilcoxson v. State

OPINION

NORMA McGEE OGLE, Judge.

On November 1, 1986, the petitioner, Bobby R. Wilcoxson, was convicted in the Hamilton County Criminal Court of first degree murder and, on February 13, 1987, was sentenced to death by electrocution. On direct appeal, the Tennessee Supreme Court affirmed the petitioner’s conviction and death sentence. State v. Wilcoxson, 772 S.W.2d 33 (Tenn.1989), cert. denied, 494 U.S. 1074, 110 S.Ct. 1798, 108 L.Ed.2d 799 (1990). The petitioner’s counsel then filed a petition for post-conviction relief on June 14, 1990, which petition was amended on February 7, 1992, and on…