Legal Opinion
Bratton v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee
Decided December 22, 1971PublishedCited by 60 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
OLIVER, Judge.
Robert L. Bratton, indigent and represented in this proceeding by the Shelby County Public Defender duly appointed, an inmate of the State Penitentiary where he is serving a sentence for first degree murder adjudged by the Criminal Court of Shelby County in 1945 upon his guilty plea while represented by retained counsel, has duly perfected his appeal to this Court from the judgment of that court dismissing his post-conviction petition after an evi-dentiary hearing and his amended petition without a hearing.
The petitioner’s first two Assignments of Error are directed to…
2Cases cited24 opinions
- Brady v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1970
- Parker v. North CarolinaSupreme Court of the United States · 1970
- Avery v. AlabamaSupreme Court of the United States · 1940
- State Ex Rel. Wade v. NorvellCourt of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee · 1969
- Dan Joseph Reed v. C. Murray Henderson, Warden, Tennessee State PenitentiaryCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1967
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3Cited by60 opinions
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- Tidwell v. StateTennessee Supreme Court · 1996
- Alley v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee · 1994
- Clenny v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee · 1978
- Hembree v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee · 1976
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