Roy Lee Smartt v. C. Murray Henderson, Warden, Tennessee State Penitentiary

Roy Lee Smartt, petitioner-appellant, appeals from an order of the United States District Court for the Western District of Tennessee denying his petition for a writ of habeas corpus. The appellant is serving a fifteen year sentence for armed robbery in the Tennessee penitentiary at Nashville.

Counsel for appellee filed a motion to dismiss the appeal under Rule 8(b) of the rules of this court for the reason that it is manifest that the questions on which the decision of the cause depends are so unsubstantial as to need no further argument. No reponse was filed to this motion on behalf of the…