Jones v. Wilson

MEMORANDUM OPINION AND’ ORDER

NEESE, District Judge.

Having found that the petitioner Mr. Jones was, and for seven years had been, serving a sentence of imprisonment in the custody of the warden of the Tennessee state penitentiary pursuant to a judgment of the Criminal Court of Greene County, Tennessee, whose jurisdiction to impose such judgment was not shown to have existed, this Court concluded that available corrective processes of the state of Tennessee were ineffective to protect the rights of the prisoner Mr. Jones and assumed jurisdiction of his application for the federal writ of habeas…