William H. Williams Collection of Criminal Court Papers, 1968-1992

Collection Number: 05689

Collection Title: William H. Williams Collection of Criminal Court Papers, 1968-1992

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Size	1.0 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 170 items)
Abstract	The collection of William H. Williams, judge in the Criminal Court in Shelby County, Tenn., and the Criminal Appeals Court, is comprised chiefly of legal documents pertaining to the cases of James Earl Ray, assassin of Martin Luther King, Jr., and serial murderer George Howard Putt of Memphis, Tenn. Legal documents include petitions, motions, briefs, affidavits, orders, opinions, and memorandum of findings. Other materials include handwritten notes Williams made on the cases, slight correspondence with other officers of the court, and a thank you letter following Judge Williams denial of a new trial for Ray.
Creator	Williams, William H., 1926-2003.
Curatorial Unit	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.
Language	English

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Preferred Citation: [Identification of item], in the William H. Williams Collection of Criminal Court Papers #5689, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information: Received from John Trent Williams in April 2016 (Acc, 102573).

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William Hargreaves Williams (1926-2003) was a prosecutor and later criminal court judge in Memphis, Tenn. As a judge, Williams presided over highly publicized trials, including the appeals of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s assassin James Earl Ray and the conviction of serial murderer George Howard Putt.

Born in Deland, Fla., to Wray Williams and Persis Buck Williams, William H. Williams grew up in Memphis, Tenn., where his mother was a civic leader and an associate of Memphis political boss Edward Hull Crump, for whom she got out the women's vote.

Williams served in the United States Naval Air Corps at the end of World War II and then attended Louisiana State University where he played football for one year. He received his bachelor’s degree from Memphis State University (MSU) in 1949 and worked at the Wray Williams Blueprint Company from 1947 to 1957. He graduated from MSU law school in 1955.

From 1959 to 1962, Williams was an assistant district attorney in Memphis, and after two years in private practice, he served as a county attorney in Tennessee from 1964 to 1969. In 1969, Williams was appointed judge to the Criminal Court in Memphis. He served as judge for 22 years and an additional eight years as a senior judge appointed by the Tennessee State Supreme Court. He retired in 1998.

Williams was married to Betty Williams, and they had four children, John Trent Williams, David Williams, Bobby Williams, and Ginny Williams Wilcox.

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The collection of William H. Williams, judge in the Criminal Court in Shelby County, Tenn., and the Criminal Appeals Court, is comprised chiefly of legal documents pertaining to the cases of James Earl Ray, assassin of Martin Luther King, Jr., and serial murderer George Howard Putt of Memphis, Tenn. Legal documents include petitions, motions, briefs, affidavits, orders, opinions, and memorandum of findings. Other materials include handwritten notes Williams made on the cases, slight correspondence with other officers of the court, and a thank you letter following Judge Williams denial of a new trial for Ray.

The bulk of the collection pertains to multiple petitions for post-conviction relief made on behalf of James Earl Ray, who in 1969 was convicted with a plea of guilty and sentenced to ninety-nine years in prison for the first degree murder of civil rights leader Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., on 4 April 1968. Ray's claims for relief included denial of due process, coerced plea of guilty, ineffective counnsel, trial judge error, and cruel and unusual punishment associated with solitary confinement. Most court documents are copies, and some have handwritten annotations made by Williams. Ray remained in prison until his death in 1998.

Materials related to the murder convictions and petitions for post-conviction relief of George Howard Putt are also chiefly copies of court documents with some handwritten items by Williams. Putt was convicted and initially sentenced to die by electrocution for one of the five murders he committed in the summer of 1969 in Shelby County, Tenn. His death sentence was overturned and changed to life in prison. After standing trial for two of the other murders, Putt was given consecutive sentences totaling more than 400 years. He died in prison in March 2016. Several documents concern Putt's sanity hearing in April 1970. Putt's claims for post-conviction relief included ineffective counsel, denial of transfer to a psychiatric hospital, and the state of Tennessee's use of the McNaughten Rule for testing legal sanity.

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1. James Earl Ray, 1968-1992and undated.
2. George Howard Putt, 1969-1979.

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Approximately 150 items.

Arrangement: chronological.

Folder 1	Affidavit of Jerry Ray, November1968 "I told Mr. Foreman that I had talked to the writer, Mr. Huie, and that he said to me that if my brother, James Earl Ray, took the witness stand it would ruin his book. Mr. Foreman told me then that if my brother went to trial with Mr. Arthur Haynes as his lawyer, he would be electricuted [sic] as Mr. Haynes and Mr. Huie were old friends and that all these men were after was the money." (Criminal Court of Shelby County, Tenn.)
Folder 2	State of Tennessee v. James Earl Ray, Alias, 1968-1970 Motion to Produce "1. Any firearm or other weapon…2. Any automobile allegedly owned or operated by defendant…3. Records or documents pertaining to any hotel…4. All photographs…" Answer to the motion to produce. Motion for Production of Books, Papers, Documents and Tangible Objects. Order "directing the Sheriff to cease and desist from the use of television lights, cameras and microphones in security and surveillance of the defendant." (Criminal Court of Shelby County, Tenn., No. 16645 Murder)
Folder 3	Guilty Plea Proceedings, 10 March1969 "'We, the Jury find the defendant James Earl Ray guilty of murder in the first degree as charged in the indictment and fix his punishment at confinement for ninety-nine (99) years in the state penitentiary at Nashville, Tennessee.'" (Criminal Court of Shelby County, Tenn., No. 16645 Murder)
Folder 4	Affidavit, 26 March1969 "On or about the 6th day of June 1968 I was arrested at the Heathrow airport, London England, Subsequently I was charged with homicide in the United States and ordered held for immigration hearing. After being held incommunicado for approximately 4 days I was taken before an English magistrate and ordered held for an extradition hearing....After I was returned to Memphis Tenn and confined in the Shelby County Jail, I was denied access to legal counsel, or sleep, until I submitted to palm prints."
Folder 5	Amended and Supplemental Motion for a New Trial, 7 April1969 "James Earl Ray…moves this Honorable Court to set aside his waiver, his plea of guilty, and his conviction and grant him a new trial." (Criminal Court of Shelby County, Tenn., No. 16645)
Folder 6	Memorandum Finding of Facts and Conclusions of Law, 6 June1969 "A Jury was empaneled, sworn, evidence of witnesses presented, stipulations heard, and a plea of Guilty to Murder in the First Degree was entered in the presence of this Jury." (Criminal Court of Shelby County, Tenn., No. 16645)
Folder 7	Deposition of Percy Foreman, 11 November 1969 "From me, I think he received the right to continue living; from Mr. Huie, he received money for investigation, preparation and defense of a case in which his adversaries are reported to have spent $440,000…I have neither contracted nor had any conversation with any person, firm or corporation concerning either motion picture or other rights deriving from James Earl Ray or the murder of Martin Luther King." (United States District Court for the Western Division of Tennessee, No. 60-199 Civil)
Folder 8	Memorandum Denying Petition for Certiorari, 9 January1970 "The defendant has filed a petition for writ of certiorari to this Court and has, in effect, two assignments of error, (1) that certain letters written by him to the late Judge Preston W. Battle constituted a motion for a new trial and (2) that the trial court erred in ruling that the defendant knowingly, intelligently, and voluntarily entered a plea of guilty, thus waiving any right he might have had to an appeal." (Supreme Court of Tennessee)
Folder 9	Petition for Post Conviction Relief, 13 April1970 "Petitioner would show…That he and his prior two attorneys in Cause No. 16645 in the Criminal Court of Shelby County, Tennessee, entered into contracts with the author William Bradford Huie while petitioner was in the Shelby County jail awaiting trial, said contracts being primarily to sell the publishing and movie rights concerning the petitioner's case; that this sale was to made to the said William Bradford Huie for substantial sums..." (Criminal Court of Shelby County, Tenn. No. H.C. 661)
Folder 10	Affidavit of Carol Pepper and Albert Pepper, 16 April1970 "Mr. Foreman further said that if James Earl would co-operate and keep his mouth shut, he, Mr. Foreman, would get him a pardon in a matter of about two years, as he knew who the next governor would be."
Folder 11	Designation to hear petition, April1970 Includes Williams's acceptance of the designation by Tennessee State Supreme Court.
Folder 12	Memorandum of Findings of Fact and Law, 20 April1970 Also included are Petition for Waiver of Trial and Request for Acceptance of Pleas of Guilty, Order Authorizing Waiver of Trial and Accepting Plea of Guilty, Voir Dire of Defendant on Waiver and Order, copies of Ray's letters to the Court, and Amended and Supplemental Motion for a New Trial. (Criminal Court of Shelby County, Tenn. No. H.C. 661)
Folder 13	Memphis Police Department Report on Complaint Call to Bobby Davis, 25 April1970 "He also stated that he knew who killed Martin Luther King and that it was not James Earl Ray. At this point, we asked Mr. Davis why he did not come to the Police Department with any information if he had any concerning this case. He stated you don't think I am crazy do you? At this time, he stated I'm going to produce Shadow Over Memphis which is to be a movie concerning the Howard Putt case come hell or high water."
Folder 14	Amended Petition for Post Conviction Relief, 7 May1970 "Your petitioner charges that his rights of 'due process' guaranteed him by both the State and Federal Constitutions have been grossly violated." Ray's petition claims: "I. Due Process Denied in Proceeding Whereby Petitioner Was Extradited to Memphis...II. Trial by Press...III. Exculpatory Information Withheld from Petitioner...IV. Unavailability of Witnesses...V. Unreasonable Search and Seizure... VI. Right to Counsel...VII. The Deal...VIII. Petitioner Accepted the Deal Under Duress and Bribery...IX. Cruel and Unusual Punishment...He was kept in solitary confinement in Memphis for nine months. He was cut off from all fresh air and daylight during this long period of time...XI. Did Petitioner in Fact Agree in Court that He Was Voluntarily Pleading Guilty?...XII. Fraud on the Court...Despite a prohibition against pre-trial publicity Look Magazinepublished highly prejudicial articles by author Wm. Bradford Huie, who received his information from Attorney Arthur Hanes...XIII. Public Interest...XIV. Trial Judge Intended to Hear Motion for New Trial at Time of His Death...XV. Delay" (Criminal Court of Shelby County, Tenn., No. H.C. 661)
Folder 15	Brief and Argument, 5 June1970 "Petitioner urges upon this Court that making available to him the evidence, both material and intangible, is not the prelude to a 'fishing expedition' but only specifically to aid him in the establishment of his Petition for Post Conviction Relief of certain vital, necessary facts." (Criminal Court of Shelby County, Tenn., No. H.C. 661)
Folder 16	Affidavit of James Earl Ray, 7 July1970 "I, James Earl Ray, do solemnly swear that owing to my poverty that I am unable to bear the expense of any Court proceeding or appeal therefrom." (Criminal Court of Shelby County, Tenn., No. H.C. 661)
Folder 17	Briefs, 25 August 1970 Submitted by the State of Tennessee: "petitioner claims a coerced plea by reason of the death penalty, again at the instance of privately retained counsel." Submitted by the State of Tennessee: "Petitioner has raised the question of his extradition from England apparently on the grounds his crime [was] a political one although there are no allegations of facts as a basis for that allegation." State of Tennessee's response to amended petition: "There is no allegation of fact or conclusion that the guilty plea of the Petitioner was in any way induced by Percy Foreman's conversation with Judge Battle or that the pleas was a result of any promise or coercion of Judge Battle." (Criminal Court of Shelby County, Tenn., No. H.C. 661)
Folder 18	Petitioner's Answer to Motion to Strike, 31 August1970 "Allegation that Plea Was Involuntary Has Not Been 'Previously Determined' Thus, A Hearing on the Merits Is Required." (Criminal Court of Shelby County, Tenn., No. H.C. 661)
Folder 19	Supplement to Amended Petition for Post Conviction Relief, 22 September1970 "Attorney Percy Foreman Violated Legal Ethics and Petitioner's Legal Rights By Negotiating the Guilty Plea Directly with Trial Judge Preston Battle." (Criminal Court of Shelby County, Tenn., No. H.C. 661)
Folder 20	James Earl Ray v. State of Tennessee1970 "Rehearing denied." (Supreme Court of Tennessee)
Folder 21	Motions, 1970-1971 Motion to Declare Indigency of Defendant. Motion for an Order "to permit psychiatrists of Defendant's Counsels' choice to visit the Shelby County jail quarters." Motion to Produce "and turn over to attorneys of record for the defendant such date books, log books, or notebooks or any such personal data belonging to Judge Preston Battle." Motion to Produce "the name of such person or persons who constructed and designed or advised in the construction or design of the quarters in the Shelby County jail." Motion to Produce "all and such records that pertain to visits inclusive of the dates and times of his former attorney Percy Foreman and the defendant's brother Jerry Ray." Motion to Produce "the FBI spectrographic analyses of 1) the bullet fragments taken from the body…and 2) the bullets which were found outside 424 S. Main and which allegedly had been purchased by Petitioner." Motion to require the state of Tennessee to answer his petition. Motion to Produce "1) the window sill taken from the bathroom from which an assassin allegedly fired... and 2) the rifle which was allegedly used to assassinate Dr. King and any clip attached to it." Motion to Order Production of Radio Logs "related to the alleged chase of a white Mustang after the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King on April 5, 1968." Motion to Order Production of Reports By Fire and Police Department Witnesses. Motion to Subpoena all Registration Records of the Rebel Motel for the Period April 1 through April 5, 1968. Motion to Produce in Court Hammer and Pliers Referred to in Stipulated Evidence. Motion to Produce Spectrographic Analyses. Motion to Order Production of All Police Photos of the Murder Scene and Make Some Available to Petitioner. Motion to Have Bullets Test Fired From Alleged Murder Weapon." (Criminal Court of Shelby County, Tenn., No. H.C. 661)
Folder 22	Motions to Strike and Replication To Motions,1970-1971 Motion to Strike Motion to Test Fire Murder Weapon. Motion to Strike Motion for Radio Logs. Motion to Strike Motion for Spectrographis [sic] Analysis. Motion to Strike Motion for Photographs of the Murder Scene. Motion to Strike Motion for Reports of Fire and Police Department Witnesses. Replication to Motion to Subpoena Record of Rebel Motel. Replication to Motion to Produce Hammer and Pliers. Replication to Motion to Produce Windowsill and Rifle. Motion to Strike Motions to Strike. Motion to Strike Motion to Produce and Ancillary Motions. Motion to Strike "Petition for Post-Conviction Relief." Answer and Motion to Strike. (Criminal Court of Shelby County, Tenn., No. H.C. 661)
Folder 23	Thank you note, 2 March 1971 "Mere words cannot thank you enough for your decision to deny James Earl Ray a new trial. He's had his trial and he certainly was given a fair one, though a few of the masses may not think so."
Folder 24	Memorandum of Findings of Fact and Law, April 1971 "It is therefore ordered, adjudged and decreed that the Motion to Strike the Petition, as amended and Supplemental Petition for Post Conviction Relief is sustained and Petition for Post Conviction Relief as amended, and Supplemental Petition is hereby ordered dismissed." Includes Order Denying Petition (Criminal Court of Shelby County, Tenn., No. H.C. 661)
Folder 25	Handwritten Memorandum Opinion of Law and Facts, 1971
Folder 26	Opinion, 24 February 1972 "The judgment of the trial court is affirmed." (Court of Criminal Appeal of Tennessee, No. 40)
Folder 27	Petition for a Writ of Habeas Corpus, 4 December 1972 "Exculpatory evidence was withheld from petitioner…Cruel and unusual punishment was inflicted upon petitioner during his incarceration prior to trial…Irreconcilable conflicts of interest on the part of the petitioner's attorneys engendered enormous prejudicial publicity caused his attorneys to pressure him not to take the witness stand in his own defense and instead enter a plea of guilty against his will." (United States District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee, No. 6800)
Folder 28	James Earl Ray, Appellant v. State of Tennessee, Appellee, 1972 "Appellant filed a petition for post-conviction relief from his guilty-plea conviction of first degree murder and punishment of ninety-nine years, which petition was dismissed without evidentiary hearing." (Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee)
Folder 29	Memorandum Decision, 27 February 1975 "Pursuant to a remand by the Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit this court conducted an evidentiary hearing in this habeas corpus case. The hearing lasted eight days, during which 165 exhibits were offered." (United States District Court for the Western District of Tennessee)
Folder 30	Affidavit for Lowell W. Bradford, forensic scientist, 17 September 1975 Also included are a Supplemental Affidavit of Newton P. Allen, counsel for CBS. Inc., Allen's Certificate of Service, and Lowell W. Bradford's curriculum vitae. (Criminal Court of Shelby County, Tenn., No. 16645)
Folder 31	Affidavit for CBS, Inc., counsel Newton P. Allen, 26 September 1975 Also included is a copy of a court order for retesting of exhibits in the State of California v. Sirhan Bishara Sirhan. (Criminal Court of Shelby County, Tenn., No. 16645)
Folder 32	Memorandum of Points and Authorities in Support of the Petition of CBS Inc., for Inspection by Scientific Examination of the Ballistics Exhibits, 1975 Petitioner, CBS Inc., seeks an order authorizing inspection and scientific examination by CBS News…of the 'ballistics' or firearms identification evidence introduced as exhibits in the trial upon guilty plea of James Earl Ray on March 10, 1969." (Criminal Court of Shelby County, Tenn., No. 16645)
Folder 33	James Earl Ray, Petitioner-Appellant v. J.H. Rose, Warden, Respondent-Appellee, 10 May 1976 "It is now here ordered and adjudged by this Court that the judgment of the said District Court in this cause be and the same is hereby affirmed." (United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit) "It is ordered by this Court that the said petition be, and the same is hereby, denied. " (United States Supreme Court)
Folder 34	Memorandum Opinion of Law and Facts and Order, May 1979 "Petitioner's Ground III is denied because the minutes of this Court does show that the Jury correctly specified the degree of homicide for Ray's conviction to be Murder in the First Degree." (Criminal Court of Shelby County, Tenn., No. P-1973)
Folder 35	Correspondence, May-June 1979 Correspondence pertains to Ray's petition. (Criminal Court of Shelby County, Tenn., No. P-1973)
Folder 36	Petition for Post Conviction Relief, 1979 Also included are a Motion to Amend Petition for Post Conviction Relief and Memorandum Opinion of Law and Facts (Criminal Court of Shelby County, Tenn., No. P-1973)
Folder 37	Memorandum Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law, 18 June 1979 "This is yet another of the numerous petitions for post-conviction relief filed by James Earl Ray in both state and federal court…Adjudication by Federal Courts being courts of competent jurisdiction, preclude a post conviction review of the same issue in the Tennessee Courts." Also included are handwritten notes. (Criminal Court of Shelby County, Tenn., No. P-3623)
Folder 38	State of Tennessee, Appellee v. James Earl Ray, Appellant, 19 June 1980 "The current petition is but one of many filed by Ray in both state and federal court." (Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee at Jackson, No. 36)
Folder 39	Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus, 7 July 1980 "In the instant indictment nothing in the examination by the court of defendant as reflected in the Voir Dire evidences the court explained the element of 'intent' to the petitioner." (Criminal Court of Shelby County, Tenn., No. HC-2285)
Folder 40	Motion of the State of Tennessee to Dismiss Petition, 10 September 1980 Also included is a Memorandum in Support of Motion to Dismiss Petition for Post-Conviction Relief (Criminal Court of Tennessee Fifteenth Judicial Circuit at Memphis, Tenn., No. 2285)
Folder 41	Petition for Post Conviction Relief and Motions, 11 May 1984 "Evidence in the form of suppressed Memorandum by the chief prosecutor in the MLK case, Phil M. Canale, that was unavailable to the petitioner in prior post conviction relief petitions." (Criminal Court of Shelby County, Tenn. No. P-3623)
Folder 42	State of Tennessee, Appellee v. James Earl Ray, Appellant, 1986 "In his present brief, the appellant contends that he is entitled to relief because of allegedly newly discovered evidence, which he refers to as the 'Canale Memorandums.'" (Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee, No. 41)
Folder 43	Order and exhibit report, 31 July 1986 "It appears to the Court that certain physical evidence relevant to the prosecution of James Earl Ray for the murder of Martin Luther King, Jr. is in the possession of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and is scheduled to be destroyed if arrangements for its disposition are not made by the State of Tennessee before August 19, 1986." (Criminal Court of Shelby County, Tenn.)
Folder 44	Petition for Post Conviction Relief, 28 September 1987 Also included are a Motion to Proceed in Forma Pauperis and an opinion from the State Supreme Court of Tennessee concerning the validity of a guilty plea when the trial judge does not "advise a defendant, in open court, of the constitutional right against self-incrimination." (Criminal Court of Shelby County, Tenn. No. P-4977)
Folder 45	Handwritten notes, circa 1988
Folder 46	Memorandum Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law, 6 January 1988 "The sole ground stated is that Ray was not advised of his constitutional right that he could not be compelled to incriminate himself." (Criminal Court of Tennessee for the Thirtieth Judicial District at Memphis, Tenn., No. P-4977)
Folder 47	Court proceedings about ownership of the Remington rifle, 1988 Renfro Hays, Plaintiff v. John G. Montague, Defendant and Third Party Plaintiff v. Hugh W. Stanton, Jr., and James A. Blackwell, Third Party Defendants. (Chancery Court of Shelby County, Tenn. No., 96259-3 R.D.)
Folder 48	Court proceedings about ownership of the Remington rifle, 1989-1990 Renfro Hays, Plaintiff v. John G. Montague, Defendant and Third Party Plaintiff v. Hugh W. Stanton, Jr., and James A. Blackwell, Third Party Defendants. (Chancery Court of Shelby County, Tenn., No. 96259-3 R.D.)
Folder 49	Order Overruling Petition to Rehear, 20 March 1989 Also included is a Parole Eligibility Report Addendum. (Court of Criminal Appeals, No. 101)
Folder 50	James Earl Ray v. William H. Williams and J.A. Blackwell, 1990 Includes a letter to the Tennessee State Attorney General requesting representation in two lawsuits, including James Earl Ray v. William H. Williams and J.A. Blackwell (United States District Court for the Western District of Tennessee, No. 83-2793)
Folder 51	Court proceedings about ownership of the Remington rifle, 1991 "That the return of the weapon to Ray or any of his relatives or friends is specifically prohibited." (Chancery Court of Tennessee, No. 96258-3 R.D.)
Folder 52	James E. Ray, Appellant v. State of Tennessee, 16 March 1992 The appellant has appealed to this Court challenging the lower court's denial of post-conviction relief."(Court of Criminal Appeals, No. 02C01-0106-CR-00122)
Folder 53	Handwritten notes undated
Folder 54	Excerpts marked as exhibits, undated Copy of pages from The Strange Case of James Earl Ray: The Man Who Murdered Martin Luther King(1969) and a copy of court proceedings that are not identified on the document.

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Approximately 20 items.