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PENDERGRASS v. NEIL

Civ. No. 6043.

338 F.Supp. 1198 (1971)

Martin V. PENDERGRASS v. W. S. NEIL, Warden, Tennessee State Penitentiary.

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

April 1, 1971.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John W. Wagster, Nashville, Tenn., for petitioner.

David Pack, Atty. Gen., and R. Jackson Rose, Asst. Atty. Gen., State of Tenn., Nashville, Tenn., for respondent.

ORDER

FRANK GRAY, Jr., Chief Judge.

Petitioner is presently confined in the Tennessee State Penitentiary at Nashville, Tennessee. There he is serving a one-year sentence, which was imposed by the Criminal Court of Hickman County, Tennessee, following his 1968 conviction of manslaughter. It is his contention that his present incarceration is illegal, and, in consequence, he has filed a petition for the writ of habeas corpus. The merits of his petition are...

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