Mullins v. State

OPINION

DUNCAN, Judge.

The appellant-defendant, James Mullins, was convicted in the Hamblen County Criminal Court of burglary and larceny. These were the triggering offenses for the subsequent finding by the jury that the defendant was an habitual criminal. He was sentenced to the penitentiary for life as his enhanced punishment.

In this appeal, the defendant assigns errors concerning the court’s rulings on his motions to dismiss the indictment, the alleged insufficiency of the evidence, the testimony of certain witnesses, and the attorney general’s argument. He also attacks the alleged…