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DELK v. ATKINSON

No. 80-1011.

498 F.Supp. 1282 (1980)

Samuel DELK, Petitioner, v. Frank D. ATKINSON, Sheriff, Hickman County; Jim Rice, Circuit Court Clerk, Hickman County, Respondents.

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

October 6, 1980.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lionel R. Barrett, Jr., William P. Redick, Jr., Nashville, Tenn., for petitioner.

Robert L. Jolley, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen., Nashville, Tenn., for respondents.

MEMORANDUM

WISEMAN, District Judge.

In this petition for the writ of habeas corpus, petitioner, Samuel Delk, has requested the Court to examine the record of his 1976 state murder trial under the standard of Jackson v. Virginia, 443 U.S. 307, 99 S.Ct. 2781, 61 L.Ed.2d 560 (1979), to determine whether there was, as a matter of constitutional law, sufficient evidence to warrant the jury's verdict finding him guilty of...

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