Brown v. State

OPINION

OLIVER, Judge.

Harry Brown, the petitioner below, an inmate of the State Penitentiary where he is serving a life sentence, appeals to this Court from the judgment of the Criminal Court of Hamilton County dismissing his petition for post-conviction relief, filed under T.C.A. §§ 40-3801 to 40-3824, after an evidentiary hearing.

In July 1966, upon an indictment charging him with the theft of an automobile, the petitioner was convicted of grand larceny in the Criminal Court of Hamilton County and received a maximum sentence of four years imprisonment in the State Penitentiary. His motion for…