State Ex Rel. Ivey v. Meadows

This is a habeas corpus proceeding. The plaintiff-in-error, A. R. Ivey, hereinafter referred to as petitioner, was tried and convicted of murder in the first degree and sentenced to confinement in the State Penitentiary for a period of ninety-nine years. Pending an appeal of the conviction, he was confined for a period of eighteen months and eighteen days in the State Penitentiary.

This Court reversed the first conviction and remanded the case for a new trial. Ivey v. State, 210 Tenn. 422, 360 S.W.2d 1 (1962).

In December 1962, petitioner was again tried and convicted of involuntary…