Locke v. Rose
United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
514 F.2d 570 (1975)
Relevant factsFree
Harold Locke (plaintiff/petitioner) broke into a neighbor's apartment at knifepoint and forced her to submit to multiple acts of oral sex, and was convicted under Tennessee's sodomy statute and sentenced to five to seven years; after Tennessee's Court of Criminal Appeals affirmed, Locke filed a federal habeas petition against warden Jimmy Rose (defendant), which the district court dismissed before Locke appealed.
IssueFree
Whether, on its face, Tennessee's common law sodomy statute fails to give individuals fair warning that it proscribes acts involving female oral copulation.