Washington v. Tollett

OPINION

MITCHELL, Judge.

William Floyd Washington, who will be referred to as petitioner or by name now represented by court appointed counsel, has appealed the dismissal without an eviden-tiary hearing his post conviction relief petition, from the Criminal Court of Shelby County, Tennessee, Honorable W. Otis Higgs, Judge presiding.

The technical record shows that on the 13th day of May, 1969 the defendant William Floyd Washington age 14, was before the Juvenile Court of Shelby County, on a charge of murder in the first degree of Frank Edward Cratin in the commission of robbery, and that there…