State ex rel. Fisher v. Bomar

This is a habeas corpus proceedings in which the relator Carl Gene Fisher, a prisoner in the State Penitentiary, seeks his release on the ground that in the trial of his case in Knoxville, upon the charge of a crime against nature, he did not have an attorney to prepare and file a bill of exceptions for him.

The trial court appointed two attorneys to represent him and after conviction, his attorneys made a motion for a new trial which was overruled.

The relator solicited his attorneys to file a bill of exceptions for him. They told him that it would cost approximately $150 to prepare such bill…