Morgan v. State

OPINION

OLIVER, Judge.

The plaintiffs in Error and petitioners below, Floyd E. and Clarence L. Morgan, inmates of the State Penitentiary where they are serving consecutive sentences of thirty years and fifteen years for two armed robberies of which they were convicted in the Circuit Court of Cocke County on July 20, 1966, have appealed to this Court from the judgment of that court dismissing their petitions filed under the Post-Conviction Procedure Act of this State (T.C.A. §§ 40-3801 to 40-3824) after an evidentiary hearing.

By their first Assignment of Error, the petitioners contend that upon…