Bland v. State

OPINION

HYDER, Judge.

This is an appeal from an order dismissing a petition for habeas corpus without an evidentiary hearing, which petition was filed under the provisions of the Post-Conviction Procedure Act. The Public Defender was appointed to represent the petitioner.

*79' In his well prepared petition the petitioner alleges that he entered a plea of guilty to the offense of rape in Division I of the Criminal Court of Shelby County, Tennessee, during the month of September, 1956; and that he was sentenced to ninety-nine years in the penitentiary. He states that this is his second such petition.…