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APPLICATION OF BOYD

Civ. A. No. 2674.

189 F.Supp. 113 (1959)

Application of Charles BOYD For a Writ of Habeas Corpus.

United States District Court M. D. Tennessee, Nashville Division.

July 10, 1959.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John J. Hooker Jr., and Henry W. Hooker, of Hooker & Hooker, Nashville, Tenn., for petitioner.

Henry C. Foutch, Asst. Atty. Gen., of Tennessee, for respondent.

WILLIAM E. MILLER, District Judge.

This is an application by the petitioner, Charles Boyd, for the writ of habeas corpus to obtain his release from confinement in the Tennessee Penitentiary upon the ground that he is presently serving a sentence of life imprisonment as a habitual criminal imposed under the original Habitual Criminal Act of Tennessee enacted in 1939 (Chapter 22, Tennessee Public Acts of 1939), and that such Act is in contravention of the due process...

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