Legal Opinion
Davis v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee
Decided March 14, 1984PublishedCited by 19 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
WALKER, Presiding Judge.
The petitioner, Bethel Davis, appeals from the denial of his petition for postcon-viction relief after an evidentiary hearing. We find that the trial judge and the district attorney general failed to perform the mandatory duties imposed upon them under the postconviction relief act, and we therefore remand for a proper hearing.
Davis is serving a ten to 15 year sentence for incest. We affirmed the conviction in the unreported opinion of Bethel Davis v. State, filed October 11, 1979, at Knoxville. Certiorari was denied by the supreme court December 31, 1979.
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2Cases cited12 opinions
- Townsend v. SainSupreme Court of the United States · 1963
- Brown v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee · 1969
- Trotter v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee · 1974
- State v. HopsonCourt of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee · 1979
- Parton v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee · 1972
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3Cited by19 opinions
- State v. DykesCourt of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee · 1990
- State v. RobertsCourt of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee · 1988
- Teague v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee · 1988
- State v. BurtonCourt of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee · 1988
- State v. DraperCourt of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee · 1990
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