Bailey v. State

The judgment of the Criminal Court for Knox County rendered on November 14, 1949, in the case of The State v. James E. Bailey, Number 7547, recites that “the following jury, to-wit”, then naming eleven men, find James E. Bailey, plaintiff-in-error here, guilty of housebreaking and larceny and of being an habitual criminal. This judgment accordingly sentences Bailey to the penitentiary “for the remainder of his natural life”.

More than five years thereafter the Judge of that Criminal Court, he being the same Judge who pronounced the aforesaid 1949 judgment, caused an order, after required…