Helton v. State

OPINION

OLIVER, Judge.

Represented in this proceeding by appointed counsel, the petitioner Albert Hel-ton, an inmate of the State Penitentiary where he is serving a three to five year sentence for concealing stolen property adjudged in the Circuit Court of Cocke County when the same attorney represented him by appointment, has perfected an appeal to this Court from the judgment of that court dismissing his petition for post-conviction relief (TCA § 40-3801, et seq.) after a full evidentiary hearing.

The petitioner was convicted of “aiding and abetting receiving stolen property” on 22 May 1972.…