Samuel Delk v. Frank D. Atkinson

U.S. Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit · Decided 1981-11-25

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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, </…

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