Legal Opinion
Arthur v. State
Tennessee Supreme Court
Decided July 3, 1972PublishedCited by 41 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
McCANLESS, Justice.
On August 19, 1970, William T. Arthur filed his handwritten petition for postcon-viction relief by which he sought to have set aside his conviction in February, 1967, on a charge of armed robbery. The court dismissed the petition without appointing counsel and without an evidentiary hearing, expressing the opinion that the petitioner was making “an attempt to substitute a postconviction petition for an appeal or writ of error. The allegations, if proven, are not such as would void the judgment in the case complained of.”
From the judgment dismissing the petition the…
2Cases cited3 opinions
- State ex rel. Newsom v. HendersonTennessee Supreme Court · 1968
- State Ex Rel. Reed v. HeerTennessee Supreme Court · 1966
- Wilson Wooten v. Lynn Bomar, WardenCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1959
3Cited by41 opinions
- Adkins v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee · 1995
- House v. StateTennessee Supreme Court · 1995
- State v. McClintockTennessee Supreme Court · 1987
- Swanson v. StateTennessee Supreme Court · 1988
- Teague v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee · 1988
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