Dykes v. State

OPINION

DAUGHTREY, Judge.

The defendant-appellant, Paul K. Dykes, was convicted of three counts of concealing stolen property over the value of $100.00, involving a stolen automobile ring operating out of a used car lot located in Johnson City, Tennessee. Dykes was acquitted on a fourth indictment. The jury assessed sentences of four to eight years on each count; the trial judge ordered two of these sentences to be served concurrently with each other and with a related federal sentence Dykes was serving at the time of his state conviction, but consecutively to the third sentence.

On appeal, the…