Willis v. Tollett

MEMORANDUM OPINION

NEESE, District Judge.

This application for the federal writ of habeas corpus was filed on September 26, 1968 by the petitioner, who is in custody of the respondent pursuant to the judgment of the Criminal Court of Sullivan County, Tennessee. The respondent moved to dismiss the application, apparently on the ground that the state trial court’s denial of the petitioner’s application for the state writ of habeas corpus on July 11, 1967 without an evidentiary hearing was corrected afterward by the Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee, which reversed the trial court and…