Legal Opinion
Samuel Delk v. Frank D. Atkinson
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided November 25, 1981No. 80-5376PublishedCited by 117 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LIVELY, Circuit Judge.
The district court granted a writ of habe-as corpus which had the effect of enjoining retrial of the petitioner on a murder charge. Following his jury conviction of murder in the second degree in a state trial court the petitioner appealed to the Tennessee Court of Criminal Appeals, and ultimately to the Tennessee Supreme Court claiming, inter alia, that the verdict of the jury was not supported by sufficient evidence. The supreme court reversed for trial errors and remanded for a new trial. In doing so it specifically found that the evidence was sufficient to sustain…
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